1. Russia has huge problems: crime, poor infrastructure, secessionism and chaos in the north Caucasus, appalling human-rights abuses and a looming demographic catastrophe.

2. Fundamentalism and secessionism are of course a direct result of poor governance.

3. While Indonesia faced internal political, economic and secessionism turbulent in 1998 Asian Financial Crisis, East Timorese grabbed the timing and attained independence under UN's mediation.

4. This article does theoretical studies to clarify the international law principle of People's self-determination and its relationship with ethnic secessionism.

5. Most democratic states in the West are holding an open attitude toward self-determination or secessionism .

6. In Khabarovsk, the last stop on the Trans-Siberian Railway before Vladivostok, nobody is talking about secessionism.

7. Kadeer's sons Alim and Ablikim have been in jail since 2006 for tax evasion and secessionism , respectively.