Russia to debate Georgian regions :

Both houses of Russia's parliament are meet for extraordinary sessions shortly to debate recognising the independence of Georgia's two breakaway provinces.
A vote by parliamentarians on the status of Abkhazia and South Ossetia would not be binding on the Kremlin.
However, it could provide President Dmitry Medvedev with bargaining chips in talks with the West, analysts say.
Russia fought a brief war with Georgia this month after Tbilisi tried to retake South Ossetia by military force.
Both it and the much larger province of Abkhazia have had de facto independence since breaking away in the early 1990s.
While they have enjoyed Russian economic and diplomatic support, and military protection, no foreign state has recognised them as independent states.
Since the fighting over South Ossetia ended nearly two weeks ago with the ejection of Georgian forces from both provinces, the Russian military have established controversial buffer zones along their administrative borders with Georgia proper.