The Pacific island state of Nauru has recognised South Ossetia and Abkhazia, both of which declared independence from Georgia last year. Can this have Balkan ramifications? Nauru is 21 square kilometres and has an impoverished population of some 11,000. In the last week Kieren Keke, its foreign minister has been in Moscow, Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia and Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia. According to Radio Free Europe and the Russian newspaper Kommersant Mr Keke secured $50m for...
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