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1. See M. Garcelon, Revolutionary Passage from Soviet to Post-Soviet Russia, 1985–2000 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2005).
2. B. M. Argun, “Sobytiia 1978 g. v Abkhazii,” in Abkhazovedenie: istoriia, arkheologiia, etnologiia. Vyp. 2 (Sukhum: Abkhazskii institut gumanitarnykh issledovanii, 2003), p. 23.
3. T. M. Muzaev, Etnicheskii separatizm v Rossii (Moscow: Panorama, 1999), p. 102.
4. L. M. Alekseeva, Istoriia inakomysliia v SSSR: Noveishii period (Moscow: Vest’, 1992), pp. 86–93.
5. See M. A., Volkhonskii, V. A. Zakharov, and N. Iu. Silaev, Konflikty v Abkhazii i Iuzhnoi Osetii: dokumenty 1989–2006 gg. (Moscow: Russkaia Panorama, 2008).
6. See Deklaratsiia o nezavisimosti Armenii ot 23 avgusta 1990 goda (http://base.spinform.ru/show_doc.fwx?rgn=2902).
7. For more detail, see Zh. Zh. Gakayev, Chechenskii krizis: istoki, itogi, perspektivy (Moscow: ChKTs, 1999), pp. 10–12.
8. For more detail, see my article: S.M. Markedonov, “Referendum raspada,” Polit.ru, April 1, 2011. (http://polit.ru/article/2011/04/01/ussr/).
9. A. N. Mutalibov, Karabakh—chernii sad: Dokumental’noe povestvovanie (Moscow: Sovremennost’, 2001), pp. 10–11.
10. S. Jones, Georgia: A Political History of Independence (London: I.B. Tauris, 2012), pp. 25–40.
11. Quoted from “‘Den’ banditizma, terrorizma i proizvola.’ Desiat’ let nazad nachalas’ noveishaia chechenskaia istoriia,” Kommersant, September 6, 2001 (www.kommersant.ru/doc/281761).
12. T. De Waal, Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War (New York: New York University Press, 2004), pp. 11–12.
13. The USSR State Council was the highest government body of the union state on the eve of its dissolution. It was created on the basis of USSR Law No. 2392-I of September 5, 1991, “On Bodies of State Government and Administration of the Union SSR in the Period of Transition.” This structure’s main task was to prepare consensus decisions for constituent entities of the union SSR and the union government. The State Council was comprised of the president of the USSR and senior officials of the union republics.
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Sergey Miroslavovich Markedonov
Sergey Miroslavovich Markedonov is an assistant professor in the Department of Regional Studies and Foreign Policy at the Russian State University for the Humanities.