Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who is now the vice president of the country’s Security Council, has said that Russia may annex South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the separatist regions of Georgia, Reuters reports.
“The idea of joining Russia is still popular in Abkhazia and South Ossetia,” Dmytro Medvedev wrote in an article published Wednesday in the Russian newspaper Argumenty y fakty.
“It is indeed quite possible that it will be implemented if there are good reasons for it,” he added.
Georgia, a former Soviet republic in the Caucasus, clashed with Russia in 2008 in a flash war that saw Moscow recognize the independence of two pro-Russian separatist territories, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which broke away from Georgia in 1992.
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