What about protection against a breakaway Soviet republic with nuclear arms?
And it also warned that the war in the breakaway republic could start up again.
The reality is, we could have another breakaway republic on our hands very soon.
To get into Moldova without going through the breakaway republic, you'll need to come up from the south.
Serb leaders took this as license to use force against breakaway republics.
But at the same time, he reiterated that the breakaway republic was part of Russia.
In this situation, tensions between Georgia and its breakaway republics were on the rise.
But he said he expected Russian forces would control most of the breakaway republic by summer.
By far the best organized of the breakaway republics at present is Ukraine.
Certainly, most Russians still consider the military operation a long overdue effort to bring order to the breakaway republic.