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A year ago, Russia officially recognized Abkhazia, though it is still illegitimate in the eyes of the rest of the world. The tiny state's politically strategic location makes Abkhazia a potential source of conflict between the old East and the new West. What happens when a nation tries to invent itself?
A year ago Russia recognized Abkhazia in the aftermath of the war in the other Georgian separatist republic of South Ossetia. Here Georgian soldiers sit atop a Russian personnel carrier on the Black Sea port of Poti.
Foto: Bela Szandelszky/ AP
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