To his surprise, after teaming up with Norwegian lawyers, he did get the right to name the island – if not actually secede from Norwegian rule – and in 2010 came a letter giving him permission to "remove up to eight cubic metres of loose material from the shoreline", from which he has fabricated the 44 metre-long Nowhereisland.
The judgment from the ICJ in The Hague – to be issued at 2pm – is not legally binding, but is likely to have profound consequences for Kosovo and other de facto states and territories that might secede in the future.
OSCE has sought to help broker an enduring cease-fire in eastern Ukraine, where it's believed Moscow is supporting the separatists with weapons and troops in their quest to secede from Ukraine's central government.
In his last struggle against Stalin's project for a centralised Soviet Union, Lenin again advocated the unconditional right of small nations to secede (in this case, Georgia was at stake), insisting on the full sovereignty of the national entities that composed the Soviet state – no wonder that, on 27 September 1922, in a letter to the Politburo, Stalin accused Lenin of "national liberalism".
Over the last year, however, the fledgling leadership in Kiev has been beset by separatists in the eastern provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk, and has seen the Crimea region vote to secede.
Lenin remained faithful to this position to the end: immediately after the October Revolution, when Rosa Luxembourg argued that small nations should be given full sovereignty only if progressive forces would predominate in the new state, Lenin was in favour of an unconditional right to secede.
The other is giving succour to the restless Tory right who detest the EU and want to see Britain secede from it.
Arming the Kurds too well might egg them on, once IS is defeated, to attack Iraqi forces in a bid to secede for good.Hence all new arms to the Kurds must go via Baghdad, since Western governments accept that Iraq's government still has sovereignty over the Kurdish region.
Mr Dodik wants the RS to secede, a move that could spark a new war.
This says that Quebec, or any other province, could secede from Canada only if a "clear" majority voted yes to a "clear" question (neither is defined).
On February 20th the head of its parliament suggested that the region could secede from Ukraine.Mr Glazyev has called for the federalisation of Ukraine, with a right to "self-determination", and has asserted that Russia has an obligation to intervene in the country.
