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Abkhazia and South Ossetia represent specific cases of disintegration of the Soviet empire. Owing to an extensive support of Russia, they managed to effectively separate from Georgia and to get formal recognition of their independence from Russia. However, in fact, Russia conducts full control over both of these republics, which is significantly different from other republics in the post-Soviet space existing de jure. Both of these separatist republics are under direct economic, political and military control of R...