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Seeds of Fascism: Century-Old Soiled Hanky Could Enable Cloning of Carnaro...
Sometimes there’s a theme in a week’s minor news stories, and this week it seems to be: the mislaid spermatazoa of flamboyantly (even specifically upward-turning!) mustachioed Mediterranean...
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Cossacks at the Alamo? Putin’s Chechen Toadies Threaten to Arm Mexico for...
The speaker of parliament of southwestern Russia’s Chechen Republic responded on March 24th to recent measures in the United States Congress to arm Ukraine against Russian aggression by threatening to...
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UKIP’s Rise Casts Gibraltar’s Future into Question: Spanish “Reconquista” or...
The recent rise of the far-right United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), which wants the U.K. to leave the European Union (E.U.), has shaken up British politics. Next month’s general election is not...
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Liberland: Czech Libertarian Declares New State on Danube Disputed by Croats...
This past week a new nation was declared, on a spot of land in the murkily demarcated border zone in the region of Slavonia where the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Croatia meet. But it is not...
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Philadelphia Apartment Building Claimed as Sovereign “Moorish” Territory on...
A new Black nationalist micronation in Philadelphia?The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has never healed from the horrific events of May 1985, when police helicopters bombed an urban compound...
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Read an Interview with Chris Roth, Author of “Let’s Split!”, on the “Library...
Read an interview with Chris Roth, author of Let’s Split!, on the “Library Juice” blog ...Click here for the interview.Let’s Split! A Complete Guide to Separatist Movements and Aspirant Nations, from...
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Bulgarian Declares Mass of Floating Pumice off New Zealand “Principality of...
It’s being reported this week that a 59-year-old businessman from Bulgaria has declared what he hopes will be the world’s newest independent country: the Principality of New Atlantis (Нова Атлантида)....
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Micronations Sign “Alcatraz Accords” Environmental Treaty at Central Italy...
(photo by the author)Though “Springtime of Nations” is in many ways a news blog, rarely do I present first-person reportage on these pages. Earlier this month, however, I was an invited speaker at the...
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Ukrainian “Right Sector” Fascists Light Transcarpathian Fuse
Right Sector ultranationalists in Lviv this weekBack in early 2014, during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, I predicted on this blog that Crimea would be the next part of the post-Soviet “near abroad” to...
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Uganda Fragmenting: Kooki Chieftainship Secedes from Buganda Kingdom
A small, previously relatively unknown polity in south-central Uganda, the Kooki chieftainship, quietly declared independence a couple weeks ago, the culmination of long-simmering conflict with its...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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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 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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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 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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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 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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