The German Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking just hours before Dmitry Medvedev's announcement, criticised the prospect of such a decision by Russia. "We believe that recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia is against international law," she said.
I wonder if they are even capable of feeling a shame... And when Serbian prime minister and Russian said the same thing for Kosovo recognition they did not give a shit to even answer.
In the United States, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that a Russian motion to recognise the independence of the two republics would be "dead on arrival" in the UN Security Council.
So it is recognition of Kosovo.It will be vetoed (hopefully).
http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/29511
Despite their positions on Abkhazia and South Osettia, the UK, France, Germany, Estonia and the United States have all recognised the self-declared independence of Kosovo.
