Acting a day after Russia’s Parliament unanimously supported the enclaves’ request to secede, President Dmitri A. Medvedev announced that he had signed decrees recognizing the two territories’ independence. He blamed the Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, for causing the bloodshed and forcing Moscow’s hand. He said it was clear that the warring sides could never again live together, and South Ossetia and Abkhazia had to be independent.
Appunti di un anonimo italiano
26/8/2008
