Quiz
Christian Science Monitor put a Quiz "do you know anything about Russia?"
In the answer for one of the questions (answer was right), but the explanations was :
"Russia has boundaries with 14 countries: Abkhazia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, North Korea, Norway, the People's Republic of China, Poland (via the Kaliningrad Oblast), South Ossetia, and Ukraine."
As far as I know, USA (and the rest of the world) is not recognizing Abkhazia and South Ossetia as a state. Probably CSM should learn a little bit more about geography.