Russia’s Ambassador to Athens Andrei Vdovin addressed journalists yesterday after Greece’s Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis expressed ‘concern and worry’ over Moscow’s recognition of Southern Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states, a move Athens fears could set a precedent for the Turkish-occupied north of Cyprus. ‘We do not see any parallel between the situation in the Caucasus and that in Cyprus,’ Vdovin said.