MOSCOW - Russia’s parliament voted unanimously today to urge the president to recognize the independence of Georgia’s two breakaway regions, a move likely to stoke further tensions between Moscow and the small Caucasus nation’s Western allies.

The vote follows fighting earlier this month between Russia and Georgia over the separatist territory of South Ossetia. After Russian troops invaded and occupied Georgia proper, most withdrew on Friday — although several hundred remain, the Georgians say, angering Tbilisi and the West.