In November, Russian daily Gazeta.ru published an opinion piece by geopolitical commentator Vadim Dubnov, titled Novorossiya from Luhansk to Tiraspol. In it, the author seeks to explain what drove the numerous separatist conflicts that shook the Soviet Union, and then many of the independent nations born in its wake, starting in the late 1980s. Dubnov's says that the problems in eastern Ukraine, and the current frozen separatist conflicts in Moldova, Georgia, and Azerbaijan, stem from the policies of Soviet and post-1991 Moscow.
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