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Russia remains a Black Sea power
With Russia recognizing the breakaway Georgian republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, it gains control over two major Black Sea ports and defeats the United States' plan to make the sea an exclusive "NATO lake". And far from being "isolated", as Western media would have it, Moscow now has the firm backing of Kazakhstan, an energy powerhouse and a key Central Asian player the US has been trying to woo. China, along with its Shanghai Cooperation Organization partners, "understands" Russia's position.
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