Katie in Chicago (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} pass_da_pierogi) wrote,@ 2008-02-17 13:15:00 |
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Kosovo declares independence
Kosovo declared independence today.
You can read my summary of the news on my class blog.
I've been writing about news from Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, but this story has nicely fit in with my topic since Russia's big argument against letting Kosovo break away from Serbia has been that it will give other breakaway republics ideas.
Georgia has two such republics: Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
The strange thing is: Russia is the only one who recognizes many of those breakaway republics. They get by because they have Russian trade and military support.
I understand that Russia is aligned with Serbia and that it might take it personally when it sees some plucky little country breaking away from a bigger one (remember the early '90s?). But it seems odd to me for Russia to bring up as its big fear that the very breakaway republics it seems to be supporting would want independence.
Kosovo declared independence today.
You can read my summary of the news on my class blog.
I've been writing about news from Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, but this story has nicely fit in with my topic since Russia's big argument against letting Kosovo break away from Serbia has been that it will give other breakaway republics ideas.
Georgia has two such republics: Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
The strange thing is: Russia is the only one who recognizes many of those breakaway republics. They get by because they have Russian trade and military support.
I understand that Russia is aligned with Serbia and that it might take it personally when it sees some plucky little country breaking away from a bigger one (remember the early '90s?). But it seems odd to me for Russia to bring up as its big fear that the very breakaway republics it seems to be supporting would want independence.
