Abkhazia and South Ossetia should be recognized by Russia. As to Transdnitria, our country risks to provoke a burst of violence in this unrecognized republic, Russian State Duma member Konstantin Zatulin told a conference titled Kosovo Casus.

"Nagorno Karabakh has more rights to independence than Kosovo," said Ruben Zargaryan, an advisor to the NKR Foreign Minister. "We want recognition to be the starting point but not the final. Presently, the border of unrecognized Karabakh and the fate of refugees can be under discussion."

Konstantin Zatulin said unlike South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transdnistria, which petitioned Russia for recognition, Nagorno Karabakh did not submit any motion of the kind, the Russian News Service reported.