Assessing potential Russian irredentism and separatism in Kazakhstan’s northern oblasts
Journal: Eurasian Geography and Economics
Year: 2015

The presence of co-ethnic peoples within a borderland constitutes the core of most cases of irredentism, or the subjective perception that specific international borders fail to appropriately delimit national territory. Russian President Vladimir Putin publically rationalized his recent annexation of Crimea and cross-border interventions in Georgia and Eastern Ukraine through the alleged persecution of Russians in neighboring states (specifically Russkiy Mir). While much attention has been focus