Abstract
Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has experienced high levels of ethnic conflict with regard to exit claims by former satellite states that no longer want to be part of the federation. Exit claims often antagonize the state. However, political leaders of titular ethnicities maximize ethnic revivals to keep traditions alive, and to minimize the amount of exclusion vis-à-vis the center. Massive human rights violations have resulted because of misperceptions between the center and the periphery, especially in Chechnya, the Volga-Ural’s Region and Eastern Siberia.
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Libby, Kristina
(2007)
"Ethnic Conflict,"
Human Rights & Human Welfare: Vol. 7:
Iss.
1, Article 39.
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https://digitalcommons.du.edu/hrhw/vol7/iss1/39
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