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Kodori at the brink of explosion

While the world is watching a sharp escalation of a long-term standoff in Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia, another rebel region -- Abkhazia -- is preparing to settle its own scores with Georgia. What initially seemed to be a clash between the Georgian and South Ossetian forces, rapidly snowballed into Russia's military engagement and bombardment of Georgian strategic objects outside the South Ossetian region. It is now Abkhazia that is gearing up to challenge Georgia's only controlled sliver of territory in Abkhazia -- the Kodori Gorge.

In the beginning of 90s, the territorial conflicts in Georgia flared up as a result of Abkhazia's and South Ossetia's defiance of Georgian rule. Both regions, populated by ethnic groups different from Georgians, thought to gain independence from Georgia, the same way Georgians got independence from the crumbling Soviet Union. Only their bid was militarily challenged, which Georgia lost largely due to Russia economic, military and manpower support to the rebels' war effort.

Both breakaway regions have since unsuccessfully tried to gain international recognition. Georgia too, has unsuccessfully tried to return home 300 thousand ethnic Georgians who fled Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Russia on the other hand, embraced the role of the peacemaker by stationing its troops to protect sides from engaging each-other. The outcome: for more than 17 years Georgia's territorial conflicts have remained unresolved.

Georgia's new leadership, who came to power through popular upraising in 2003, has vowed to regain control over the lost territories and bring country into the NATO. This revived ambitions angered Russia, who sees Western interest towards Caucasus as an intrusion into its natural domain of influence.

The breakaway regions have repeatedly underlined they would agree to relations with Georgia only after it recognized their right to independence -- a step Georgia is unlikely ever to take.

Abkhazia to follow South Ossetia?

Most contacts between Georgia and Abkhazia severed in 2006 after the Georgian police forces took control over an isolated Kodori Gorge -- technically within the borders of Abkhazia. From the Abkhaz point of view, this step was a breach to their territorial integrity, which they have vowed to counter.

Such occasion has risen with Russia's ongoing direct military confrontation with Georgia. If in the 90s the war was mainly localized

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[diego1fernandez]

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[spetznas1980]

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