In 1991, Bosnia and Herzegovina joined several republics of the former Yugoslavia and declared independence, which triggered a civil war that lasted for four years.

1991年，波斯尼亚和黑山联合几个前南斯拉夫的加盟共和国宣布独立，随之引发了一场长达四年的内战。

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More ambitious is the Ka Lahui group, which declared itself a new nation in 1987 and wants full, official independence from the US.

更加野心勃勃的是卡拉辉集团，该集团在1987年宣布自己为一个新国家，并希望脱离美国正式全面独立。

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Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 and declared its independence in 1990.

立陶宛在1940年成为苏联的附属国，在1990年宣布独立。

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Serbia's main ally Russia has recognized the self-declared independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia.

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Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia last year, despite strong opposition from Belgrade and from Moscow.

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Abkhazia and South Ossetia declared independence following Georgia's conflict with Russia last August.

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His radicalism scared criollo landholders, and Mexico declared independence only in 1821, in conservative reaction to a liberal Spanish government.

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South Sudan took with it nearly three-quarters of Sudan's oil production when it declared independence and the two sides fell out over how much the South should pay to export its oil through Sudanese pipelines.

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Adelina Marku, who speaks for the Tetovo-based Democratic Party of Albanians, a junior partner in Macedonia's ruling coalition government, says that the Kosovars, who declared nominal independence from Serbia back in 1991 and created a series of notional organs of state, had lulled themselves into a false sense of security.

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