That’s what the Financial Times is reporting following Russia’s announcement that Moscow would establish official links with the separatists regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. I may be wrong, but I think this would be the first formal annexation since Saddam Hussein made Kuwait part of Iraq in 1990, getting the ball rolling on a series of events which continue to roil international relations. Some clever jabs about Kosovo should be forthcoming from Moscow any minute now… excerpt after the cut.