Russian lawmakers have voted unanimously to ask the president to recognise the independence of Georgia’s two rebel provinces, a move likely to anger the United States, the European Union and other Georgian allies. Russia has raised the stakes in the political fallout over its war with Georgia, as both houses of the Russian parliament voted unanimously to recognise the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The final decision on whether to recognise Georgia’s two breakaway regions as independent countries will be taken by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The vote on a resolution came as the last Russian soldiers still inside Georgia proper showed no sign of pulling out, and a military spokesman in Moscow said that Russian peacekeepers would from now on check all cargo unloaded at Georgia’s Black Sea port of Poti. More
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