MOSCOW, September 14 (RIA Novosti) - Self-proclaimed republics in the CIS are seeing intensive democratic development, a member of the Russian parliament and director of the Moscow-based CIS Institute said Wednesday.
"In terms of state development, they boast the attributes that many recognized states lack. I do not only mean armed and security forces, but also democratic processes developing in these republics, including a change of power [based on fair elections]," Konstantin Zatulin said in his address to a conference on the issue. The republics in question are officially parts of Georgia, Moldova and Azerbaijan.
Zatulin said the conflicts had by now been reduced to peaceful confrontation and propaganda wars. (more)
