FP's Russia blog critiques the Atlantic Council’s talk entitled “Dealing with Russia to Rescue Abkhazia from the Brink”: “For those who don’t know or care about Abkhazia, good news!: it was hardly mentioned. Abkhazia wasn’t the point; the point was ‘dealing with Russia’.”
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