1. In Russia : 

• Chechnya and Dagestan had violent secessionist movements. 

• Moscow’s method to deal with Chechen rebels and indiscriminate military bombings led to many human rights violation but for deter aspirations for independence. 

2. In Central Asia : 

• Tajikistan witnessed a civil war that went on for ten years till 2001. 

• In Azerbaijan’s provinces of Nagorno-Karobakh, some local Armeni Answer want to secede and join Armenia. 

• In Georgia, the demand for independence came from two provinces resulting in a civil war. 

• There are still movements against the existing regimes in Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and Georgia. 

• Even countries and provinces are fighting over river water.

3. In Eastern Europe : 

• Czechoslovakia split peacefully into two with the Czechs and Slovaks, forming independent countries. 

• The severe conflict took place in the Balkan republics of Yugoslavia. 

• After 1991, Yugoslavia broke apart with several provinces like Croatia, Slovania, Bosnia and Herzegovina declaring independence. 

• Ethnic Serbs opposed this and a massacre of non-Serbs Bosani Answer followed.

• The NATO intervention and the bombing of Yugoslavia followed inter-ethnic Civil war.