Abstract
This article examines whether separatist dynamics like those in the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Lugansk and in the Moldovan region of Transnistria could also appear in the northern and northeastern provinces and districts of Kazakhstan that border Russia and whose populations comprise large Slavic and Russophone minorities, if not majorities. It discusses the social and political factors and the circumstances that have engendered secessionism in the aforementioned areas, and compares them to the situation in northern Kazakhstan.
Keywords
communitarianism, Donbas, Donetsk and Lugansk, de facto states, northern Kazakhstan, regionalism, (internationalist) separatism, social geographic fault lines
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