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Kopeček, Vincenc; Hoch, Tomáš

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“…It is fully dependent on the financial support of the Armenian diaspora and its kin-patron-state, Armenia, with which it has an integrated economy and intertwined politics. For an extended period, it was actually Karabakhis that monopolized power and controlled the Armenian agenda: Robert Kocharian, the elected President of Karabakh, became Prime Minister of Armenia in 1997 and then President (1998–2008), before being succeeded by another Karabakhi, Serzh Sargsyan (2008–2018); the list of Karabakhis exercising power positions in Erevan continues (Blakkisrud and Kolstø 2012, 291–294; Panossian 2001, 152; Kopeček 2020). Karabakhis are citizens of Armenia and hold Armenian passports, and the preamble of the 2006 Constitution stresses the unity of all Armenian people (Berg and Molder 2012, 534).…”

Section: Karabakhi Armenians: Irredentism and Independence In Fluxmentioning

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Legitimizing the Separatist Cause: Nation-building in the Eurasiande factoStates

Dembińska

2022

Nationalities Papers

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This article compares the nation-building processes in four well-established Eurasian de facto states. Although all four pursue a set of identity politics that would legitimize the separatist cause, comparing them reveals important differences in boundary-making strategies. While maintaining the image of the enemy parent-state and of an imminent external threat is a common endeavor, they face different challenges and thus have pursued different strategies of identity-building. Transnistria and Abkhazia are two ethnically heterogeneous entities while Nagorno-Karabakh and South Ossetia are more homogeneous since (forced) displacements, mostly of non-titular ethnicities, took place. The Abkhazs, Ossetians, and Armenians claim titular status in their respective regions, but only the latter two have kin in neighboring countries with whom they want to unify. Meanwhile, the “Transnistrian people” is a newly invented construct. Despite their lack of international recognition, the article demonstrates that – apart from a special emphasis on cultivating the image of the “enemy parent-state” – the nation-building mechanisms in the de facto states do not substantially differ from the processes at work in other post-Soviet states presented in this Special Issue.

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Section: Karabakhi Armenians: Irredentism and Independence In Fluxmentioning

confidence: 99%

Legitimizing the Separatist Cause: Nation-building in the Eurasiande factoStates

Dembińska

2022

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