While Balochistan has often been hit by sectarian violence, ethnic Baloch separatists are at the same time demanding more autonomy and a greater share of its natural resources.

BBC: Top Pakistan policeman is shot dead in Quetta

Yugoslav officials say the ethnic Albanian refugees leaving Kosovo have been driven from their homes by fighting between Albanian separatists of the Kosovo Liberation Army and Serb forces, not by any offensive against civilians.

CNN: refugee

An ethnic Russian himself, the new president, Vladimir Voronin, has offered two large sops to the Russian-speaking separatists who have set up their own, self-proclaimed (and self-corrupted) state, Transdniestria, in the east of the country.

ECONOMIST: Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova