Politics:

Elections in unrecognized republics are more democratic than those in metropolitan countries

The delayed-action mine, placed during the establishment of the USSR will still display its effects for a rather long time.

March 6, 2007
The history repeats itself - Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh, and now Abkhazia. The unrecognized republics' wish to decide their destiny on their own has again faced the resistance of the World Community, and the Parliamentary Elections in Abkhazia may serve as a proof for the above mentioned. "All the elections held in Abkhazia in post-war period speak for the stable move towards democracy and development of jural state", said the president Sergei Bagapsh after voting in the polls.
 
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