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An irreverent, informative blog about separatism, autonomy, indigenous rights, interethnic conflict, balkanization, and micronationalism—with maps & flags in every article!

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Sunday, October 26, 2014

“Lower Volga People’s Republic”—Internet Prank, or a New Autonomist Headache for the Kremlin?

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Kremlin authorities are still baffled by an apparent Internet prank on October 7th which declared Astrakhan Oblast was declaring indepe...

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Monday, August 18, 2014

Autonomy Activism Spreads from Siberia to Krasnodar, Kaliningrad, Yekaterinburg on Day of Action as Kremlin Cracks Down

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Kaliningrad autonomists displaying Prussian flags in defiance of Moscow Is Russia experiencing a second wave of anti-Moscow uprisings, ...

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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Meanwhile, at the Other End of the Empire ... Putin Scrambles to Squash Siberian Autonomy Movement

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While President Vladimir Putin seems committed to clawing back bits of territory on his western flank that used to be part of the former...

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Kremlin Hand behind Alaska Annexation Petition on White House Website?

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“Obama, think about Alaska!” reads one sign at a pro-Crimea-annexation rally in Moscow. A couple weeks ago in this blog I reported on a...

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

After Crimea, Transnistria, Then Donetsk ... and Alaska? and Sardinia?? Annexation Fever Sweeps Globe

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With a stroke of the pen, Crimea becomes Russian. First, Crimea . Next, many fear, Transnistria , or Abkhazia or South Ossetia , or ea...

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Chris Roth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States; Chris Roth is a social-cultural and linguistic anthropologist with an interest in the symbolic politics of nationalism and ethnicity. He has worked extensively with indigenous groups in northern British Columbia and southeast Alaska and is the author of an ethnography of the Tsimshian Nation.

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