Introduction 1. Secessionist Movements in Abkhazia and South Ossetia 2. Existence of the Republic of Abkhazia and the Republic of South Ossetia 3. Secessionist Movements in Transnistria 4. Existence of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic 5. Secessionist movement in Nagorno-Karabakh 6. Existence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic 7. Secessionist Movements in the Donbas 8. Existence of the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic Conclusion
Agnieszka Miarka is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Her research focuses on separatism, de facto states in the post-Soviet area, and foreign and security policies of the states of Eastern Europe and the Southern Caucasus.