Bye-Bye, Abkhazia, Crimea, South Ossetia!

On March 18, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, and Leonid Tibilov, the separatist leader of South Ossetia...... signed a Russian–South Ossetian treaty of alliance and integration.

....accord is similar to the one Russia signed with Abkhazia....November 2014. That deal meant that in practice, Moscow would be responsible for the customs, defense, and security of the self-declared republic.......

http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/?fa=59550 MARCH 30, 2015
And of course, Crimea.

East Ukraine hanging in between.