Russia took that position despite the fact that Georgia, in declaring its own independence, had violated the rights to self-determination of the people of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
尽管格鲁吉亚独立的做法侵犯了阿布哈兹和南奥塞梯人民的自决权，俄罗斯还是采取了这一立场。