SEPARATISM IN RUSSIA or Ukrainian boomerang

There are at least 12 potential pockets of separatism in Russia, and these movements are being brutally oppressed by Kremlin. The term used by Russian state media for these oppressive special operations by Russian military in Caucasus is ’destroying of insurgent forces’. But, at the same time, on the same TV screens, Russian journalists call pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine not ‘insurgents’ but ‘militia’ or ‘home guards’. It’s absolutely clear why they do it: Moscow is trying its best to preserve