Commonwealth of Unrecognized States

The Commonwealth of Unrecognized States, more formally and recently called the Community for Democracy and Rights of Nations, is an international organization uniting several states in the former Soviet Union which are not generally recognized. It was created in 2001.

Its current members are: Abkhazia,South Ossetia, Transnistria and more recently Nagorno-Karabakh.

For more details see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Unrecognized_States

There is also an interesting article on one perception of the background to this, at http://demockracy.com/tag/the-commonwealth-of-unrecognized-states/

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