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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
Indeed. Those rebels don't want to join Russia, and as far as I know, Russia is not going to let them in (we already have the enormous territory which in fact makes a lot of problems to us). They want their own country or at least an autonomy with its own budget etc.
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i was under the impression they wanted federalization to begin with, and the independence idea only came up after the western side rolled tanks in to take over the local government.
its funny the OP is talking about 'trade ties' between this region and russia, since the entire country trades and basically depends on russian trade