Word: secessionism
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"We don't discuss secession in our republic, and ethnic conflict does not exist. Our misfortune is that Moscow kept making us grow more and more cotton. We didn't even have room to raise cattle. Can a republic that produces only oil, gas and cotton really feed itself?
"Secession is now irreversible. All of Moscow's decisions for democracy came too late. Two years ago, I supported a confederation and was blamed for nationalism. Today, my idea is old. This is idiocy -- the Estonians say they are being robbed, the Russians and the Uzbeks say they are being...
"Our country was founded on taboos, and one of them was that you could not leave the union. Armenia is on the border of Turkey, our historic enemy. That fact did not allow us to think about secession. But in the past two years, we have had a crisis of...
Three days earlier, in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, a meeting of some of Gorbachev's much more determined opponents had added special urgency to his demand for expanded authority. As results of local elections flowed into the headquarters of Sajudis, the Lithuanian popular front, the architects of the independence...
The epicenter of the Soviet secessionist quake is in the Baltic states, which enjoyed 20 years of independence before being re-annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 under a cynical deal between Stalin and Hitler. As a result, says Sajudis president Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania "is not seeking to establish...