Ever heard of the Republic of Gagauzia? I hadn't, as I'm guessing is the case for most of us in the United States. Then again, before 2014 I was not aware that there existed enough sectionalist sentiment in eastern Ukraine for something like a 'People's Republic of Donetsk' or its neighbor, the 'Luhansk People's Republic,' to spring into existence in the Donbass; or that, according to some old maps conveniently re-promoted at the time in Moscow, all of the region (and much beyond) had long fallen under the cultural-political complex of 'Novorossiya,' at least up until the unfortunate Ukrainian interlude that had begun after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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