During the Spanish civil war, which raged until April 1939, nationalist rebels fought the republicans for control of Spain and, following an arrangement with Hitler's Germany, German aircraft bombed the town of Guernica, a centre of Basque separatist thought and also the base for many republican fighters.
There is massive Russian support for the separatists in Eastern Ukraine and also very problematic military actions on the part of the Ukrainian forces (Odessa).
They wrested the rural riding (constituency) of Roberval-Lac-Saint-Jean from the separatist Bloc Québécois (BQ), and also put in a strong showing in a second district, Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot Saint-Hyacinthe-Bagot
The countries have gone to war over the region, and separatists have also called for it to become independent.
Kurdish separatists and Islamist radicals have also been behind bombings in Turkey.
While mostly made up of Russians and separatists, the list also included 34 journalists and seven bloggers from countries including Britain, Germany and Spain.
The surprise vote to leave the EU encouraged anti-establishment parties in France, Denmark and the Netherlands to push for their own "leave" referendums, and also unleashed powerful separatist forces within Britain itself.
As Mr Korotkykh's case demonstrates, the ultra-nationalists have proven to be effective and dedicated fighters in the brutal war in the east against Russian-backed separatists and Russian forces, whose numbers also include a large contingent from Russia's far right.
KIEV, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Evidence collected by New York-based Human Rights Watch suggests government forces have used cluster munitions in eastern Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists may also have done so, the rights watchdog said on Tuesday.
Ronald Noble, the secretary general of Interpol, cited these incidents — and also reports of a separatist plot to disrupt the Olympic Games with poison gas — and told a press conference that a terror attack at the Olympics was "a real possibility".
