September 9, 2005 - 09:37 AMT
REPRESENTATIVES OF UNRECOGNIZED REPUBLICS TO DISCUSS POSSIBILITY OF "PARALLEL CIS"
A conference titled "Parallel CIS. Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transdnesrt and Nagorno Karabakh as post soviet realities" with the participation of representatives of the unrecognized republicswill be held in Moscow September 13-16. The conference was initiated by the Institute of CIS Studies headed by Russian Duma deputy Konstantin Zatulin and Chair of Sociology of the Moscow State University. Well known Russian political scientists, representatives of Russian, Armenian and South Ossetian clergy are expected to take part in the conference. The names of the officials to represent Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transdnesrt and Nagorno Karabakh are not known yet.