Now Russia is threatening to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia if the West recognizes the Serbian province of Kosovo as an independent nation. To the extent that most of the residents of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have already been given Russian citizenship, the recognition of those two regions’ sovereignty would be entirely fictitious and, in fact, an interim measure on the way to their full annexation by Russia.
现在俄罗斯正在威胁，如果西方国家承认塞尔维亚的科索沃省为独立国家的话，那么它也要宣布承认阿布哈兹和南奥塞蒂的独立。鉴于阿布哈兹和南奥塞蒂的的绝大部分居民已经获得了俄罗斯国籍，承认这两个地区的独立主权就完全是虚假的，并且事实上只是它们最终被俄罗斯完全兼并过程中的一种临时措施而已。