Sentences with phrase «secessionist territories»

The recent military redeployments, the speedy legislative changes in the Russian parliament to facilitate reintegration of secessionist territories, and the calls for protection of co-ethnics suggest that Russia is using this opportunity to take back its gift of 1954.

Since Georgia can not have failed to realise that Russia would oppose a violent reintegration of the secessionist territory, or that the possibility of winning a war with Russia was nil, Saakashvili's confidence that the invasion was still a realistic option could only have stemmed from a belief — resting on the perception of Georgia as an integral part of the Western alliance — that NATO would certainly back him, and the threat of them doing so would be enough to prevent Russia from retaliating.