al Jazeera reports in this article about parliamentary voting in the breakaway province of Abkhazia, nominally a part of Georgia, but effectively independent since a civil war in the early 90s. Notably, the separatist struggles of both Abkhazia and another Georgian province, South Ossetia, have received substantial backing from Russia. This is a potentially dangerous game for Russia, as they attempt to drive the fragmentation of states such as Georgia and Moldova on one hand to retain regional dominance, yet throw thousands of lives away and cause massive damage trying to retain Chechnya. It becomes especially worrisome when you consider that some of the killers at Beslan may well have been separatists from the Ossetia region in Russia.
Guns and funds don't politely stop at the borders.