Word: separatist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MOSCOW: As Russian President Boris Yeltsin readies for his second term inauguration, the last thing he needs is a loud, violent embarrassment from the separatist rebels down in Chechnya Terence Nelan
MOSCOW: As Russian President Boris Yeltsin readies for his second term inauguration, the last thing he needs is a loud, violent embarrassment from the separatist rebels down in Chechnya Terence Nelan
...Yeltsin and Mayor Yuri Luzhkov blamed the attack on terrorists, closed the main roads leading out of Moscow, and flooded the city with police. "Luzhkov thinks that Chechens or criminals opposed to the new anti-crime policy are responsible," says TIME's Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich, who doubts the separatist guerrillas are behind the attacks. "If the Chechens set the bombs, they would have claimed responsibility by now. They understand that the political fallout from the attacks are more important than the attacks themselves. People are so stunned, and stupefied by the attacks that they have not reacted...
...press briefing Tuesday was that the Taiwanese inauguration speech was an "internal affair." Even though Lee called Taiwanese independence unnecessary and impossible, which seemingly dovetails with Beijing's 'One China Policy,' the mainland remains unfriendly. China's Taiwan Affairs Office said it continues to resolutely oppose Lee, "who masks separatist activities with calls for reunification." Lee's conditions for his visit, that he come as a democratically elected leader, were rejected. "The Chinese see nothing new in this speech," says TIME Beijing Correspondent Mia Turner. "Lee's speech is certainly not an olive branch of peace to Beijing...
Ethnic studies isn't separatist and it isn't anti-white...