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Separatist Update for March 16-24, 2016: Syrian Kurds Declare Autonomy...
TOP STORY:KURDS IN SYRIA DECLARE AUTONOMOUS “ROJAVA–NORTHERN SYRIA”;IRAQI KURDISH PRESIDENT PROMISES REFERENDUM BY OCTOBERMembers of Kurdish and other ethnic groups in the northern border region of...
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Separatist Update for March 1-15, 2016: Russian Withdrawal May Set Stage for...
TOP STORY:PUTIN SUDDENLY DECLARES DRAW-DOWN FROM SYRIAN CIVIL WARAS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OPENLY CONTEMPLATES PARTITION;KURDS TILTING TOWARD RUSSIAN–ALAWITE AXIS, AWAY FROM WEST,WHILE TURKISH WAR ON...
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Separatist Updates for February 16-29, 2016: Fishball Revolt Leader Arrested;...
TOP STORY:HONG KONG INDEPENDENCE BACKER POLLS STRONGLY IN LOCAL VOTE;“FISHBALL REVOLUTION” ORGANIZER ARRESTED; COPS SAY BOMBS FOUND“‘Radical’?” asked Edward Leung Tin-kei when asked about the Chinese...
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End of an Era: Ramzan Kadyrov’s Decision to Step Aside Leaves a Power Vacuum,...
I don’t think I was alone in assuming that the Chechen Republic’s bigger-than-life, flamboyant, authoritarian president, Ramzan Kadyrov, would stay in office as long as he possibly could, whether by...
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Separatist Updates for February 1-15, 2016: Oregon Standoff Ends; Hong Kong's...
TOP STORYLAST HOLDOUT AT OREGON WILDLIFE REFUGE SURRENDERS;PATRIARCH CLIVEN BUNDY ARRESTED OVER 2014 NEVADA SIEGE;FOLLOWERS VOW TO CARRY ON FIGHT OVER FEDERAL LAND POLICYThe last of the armed extremist...
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Separatist Updates for January 16-31, 2016: Taiwan’s New Pro-Independence...
TOP STORYTSAI ING-WEN ELECTED TAIWAN PRESIDENT FOR PRO-INDEPENDENCE PARTY—FIRST FEMALE LEADER OF A CHINESE-SPEAKING COUNTRYIn Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, a 59-year-old legal scholar, was elected on January...
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Separatist Updates for January 1-15, 2016: New Catalan President, Oregon...
TOP STORYAfter Coalition Deal, New Catalan President Vows Independence within 18 Months. President Artur Mas of Catalonia lost his chance to form a fragile coalition government for his autonomous...
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“Captain Moroni” and “Y’all-Qaeda”: Why the Armed Standoff in Oregon Is Being...
Back in spring of 2014, I wrote in this space about the armed confrontation in southern Nevada led by the extremist Mormon rancher Cliven Bundy. He was in serious arrears for grazing fees on federal...
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Ten Separatist Movements to Watch in 2016
A year ago in this space, I offered my predictions for which separatist movements would capture the world’s headlines in 2015. Some of those, such as East Turkestan (in western China) (no. 8) and the...
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Near Russia’s Arctic Rim, Karelians Bristle under Putin’s Rule
Vladimir Putin, as this blog tirelessly points out, is a hypocrite when it comes to separatism. Though the authoritarian Russian president arms and funds separatists in places like Ukraine, Georgia,...
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Tsimshian Protest Camp on Small Canadian Island Defies Massive Natural-Gas...
Since late August, members of an indigenous First Nations community from the Tsimshian (also spelled Ts’msyen) Nation have been occupying—“re-occupying,” as they prefer to put it—an island off the...
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Liberland’s Empty Promises to Syrian Refugees Scorned by Other Micronations
In the midst of the Middle Eastern refugee crisis roiling Europe, an unrecognized “micronation” on a chunk of no-man’s-land between Serbia and Croatia is trying to market itself as a haven for tens of...
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Somalia’s New Autonomous Regions Hit Lethal Snags on Road to Federalism
The barely functioning Federal Somali Government (F.S.G.) is pushing forward this fall to replace its original system of small administrative regions with large autonomous “regional states,” officially...
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Fiji Junta Rounds Up Islamophobes Bent on Separate Christian State on Viti Levu
The military strongman who runs the Republic of Fiji is continuing to crack down this month on what his government and military call a separatist insurrection on Viti Levu, the Pacific nation’s largest...
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Why Does Abkhazia Get to Host the 2016 “World Cup” for Aspirant Nations?
We are used to international geopolitics inserting itself into the world of association football (that’s “soccer” to Americans). World powers sometimes use the game as a proxy war for their own...
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Beijing Folds Up Umbrella Revolution; Papua Army Massacre; a Shia–Sunni...
Hong Kong’s streets have been cleared, but no one is conceding defeat (see below under “Asia”)EUROPEKosovo Names New Government; Mustafa of L.D.K. to be Premier. After a six-month stalement, the...
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Game-Changing Votes in Moldova, Taiwan, Greenland; Ethnic Violence in...
EUROPEPro-West Party Wins in Moldova; Kremlin Sends “Humanitarian” Convoy to Transnistria. In the formerly-Soviet Republic of Moldova, parliamentary elections on November 30th handed a victory to...
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Boko Haram’s Nascent State in Nigeria Takes Shape, with Vast Parts of Borno,...
As reported in August in this blog, Boko Haram, the extremist Islamist terrorist group in Nigeria which has been waging a lethal war against Christian (and other) civilians for years, took a page from...
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Corruption Scandal Set to Put Separatists in Charge of Greenland; Inuit...
An unexpected chain of events over the past several weeks has put independence for the Danish possession of Greenland back on the table and may determine the future of energy politics in the Arctic,...
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Strange Bedfellows: “Republic of Venice” Libertarians Side with Putin in...
Strange things are happening in Europe, as the West’s political landscape shifts in the wake of the war in Ukraine. In the latest head-scratcher, a prominent academic historian and separatist...
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