At its plenary session on Thursday, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly adopted the Porto Declaration and accompanying ...

Russia’s formal recognition of eastern Ukraine’s two separatist republics has been closely watched – with dread, celebration, or quiet concern, depending on the viewer’s own geopolitical ...

In February, the U.S. Representative Joe Wilson, a staunch critic of Georgian Dream, called on Syrian Foreign Minister ...

Syria’s recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia on May 29, 2018, under Assad’s Ba’athist regime, was a rare move, making Syria the fifth UN member state to recognize these breakaway ...

However, Abkhazia (and South Ossetia, ... This is especially due to the fact that following Russia’s recognition of the independence of these de facto republics in 2008 ...

In late May, Syria established diplomatic relations with Abkhazia, along with fellow Georgian breakaway territory South Ossetia. In doing so Damascus restarted a process that had appeared stalled: ...

MOSCOW, August 26. /TASS/. The process of international recognition of Abkhazia as an independent state is irreversible, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a documentary about former ...

On the heels of signing a major arms agreement with Russia on Sept. 10, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced his country’s recognition of Georgian breakaway regions Abkhazia and South ...

Russia's recognition of Abkhaz independence "we do not see as a gracious act, but as something to pay its debt from the past," he said. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. But for Turkey ...

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin defended Russia's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states a year ago, a move he described on Wednesday as an assertion of power in the face of ...

The Central Election Commission of the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia has registered five candidates who applied to run in the presidential election on December 12. A sixth would-be candidate ...

Russia’s recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia has led to an intensification of Russia’s financial and military backing of those entities, including a hardening of the physical boundaries ...