Ethnic minority separatist movements - primarily on the part of the Ossetians and the Abkhaz, demanded fuller recognition in the new order of the early 1990s.
At the time of the dissolution of the USSR, the United States government recognized as legitimate the pre-Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact 1933 borders of the country (the Franklin D. Roosevelt government established diplomatic relations with the Kremlin at the end of that year[REF]).