Re: OOC thread
South Ossetia and Abkhazia are quite vehemently backed by Russia as being legitimate, according to them. I've noticed a lot of maps lately have been including them, which annoys me, but I didn't actually look and notice on this one. (I don't think Google Maps does, which is my standard, heh. It annoys me enough that they even put Crimea as in question on that).
Transnistria isn't even recognized by Russia, though, despite the fact that Russia pretty much is de facto in control there, and has plenty of troops stationed there. I only know this though because Ranger and I discovered it last week and were doing some research. (I'd actually discovered it before but forgotten about it).
I'll admit, I had to look Nagorno-Karabak up. That one has entirely slipped under my radar, so can't really say there.