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Originally Posted by ikalugin
There are two sides to this. First one is that, sure, if we recognise their documents we get closer to recognising them as an independent state.
But there is the second, humanitarian side to it - since 2014 people kept being born (with birth certificates), getting their primary and secondary education (and relevant certificates), driving licenses and what not. Because Kiev has no control over those territories those documents happen to be issued by local authorities.
So by recognising those documents as valid we help the locals.
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How exactly does that help the locals? Russia is not teaching their young or acting as traffic cops so I don't see why it would be so important that you do that.