Definition of separatist
: one that favors separatism: such asa capitalized : one of a group of 16th and 17th century English Protestants preferring to separate from rather than to reform the Church of Englandb : an advocate of independence or autonomy for a part of a political unit (such as a nation)c : an advocate of racial or cultural separation
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Peskov on Thursday said Putin would raise Russia's concerns that Ukraine is violating the Minsk peace accords, which call for a cease-fire in the three-year-old war with pro-Russian separatists.
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After Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, the Minsk agreements were reached as an attempt to bring about a cease-fire between Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists.
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Peskov on Thursday said Putin would raise Russia's concerns that Ukraine is violating the Minsk peace accords, which call for a cease-fire in the three-year-old war with pro-Russian separatists.
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The Night Wolves, a notorious Russian motorcycle gang, rumbled into Crimea to join forces with Cossacks and other separatists in pro-Russian demonstrations.
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Sunday's march was largely incident-free, although around 200 people protested, variously calling it an affront to traditional values and to soldiers fighting pro-Russian separatist rebels in the eastern Donbass region.
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HAT YAI, Thailand (AP) — A bomb planted in a dirt road killed six soldiers in southern Thailand on Monday, police said, in what apparently was an attack by Muslim separatists in an insurgency that has cost more than 6,500 lives since 2004.
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Mindanao has been home to separatists and splinter groups for nearly a half-century, and a headquarters for Islamists since the 1990s.
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In the past few years, Hong Kong has become a city seething with political discontent and has even witnessed the emergence of separatist and pro-independence sentiment.
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SEPARATIST Defined for English Language Learners
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: a member of a group of people who want to form a new country, religion, etc., that is separate from the one they are in now
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