The Current State of (non)recognition in the post-Soviet space
by Ann Tsurtsumia-Zurabashvili, PhD candidate at the Institute for International Conflict Resolution And Reconstruction, Dublin City University Experts have long argued that the efforts of the Russian Federation to secure international recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have largely declined after 2012 and nearly disappeared after the annexation of Crimea in 2014. Such circumstances did not appear to…