The mood there is nasty, Ostrovsky told me; a friend of his, he said, had been killed by Russian separatists during a pro-Ukraine meeting.
The clown turned to his old friend Iosif Kobzon, a singer known as "Russia's Frank Sinatra," who was banned from the European Union last year after he sang a duet with the leader of pro-Russian separatists during a concert in eastern Ukraine.
Another anti-F.B.I. demonstrator held a sign that said "Free Peltier, Jail Horiuchi," referring to Lon Horiuchi, a member of the bureau's hostage rescue team who shot and killed the wife of a white separatist during a stand-off at remote cabin at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992.
Agent May Face Trial A federal appeals court ruled, 6 to 5, that an F.B.I. sharpshooter, Lon T. Horiuchi, could be tried on Idaho state charges of manslaughter in the death of Vicki Weaver, the wife of Randy Weaver, a white separatist, during a standoff at the family's cabin in Ruby Ridge in 1992.
In the documentary, there is a still picture of Cuvelier with a medal pinned to his chest standing shoulder to shoulder with Igor Girkin (who was the commander of the separatists during the summer of 2014).
On Friday, retired General Mohammed Shuwa - key to crushing Biafran separatists during the brutal three-civil war in the 1960s - was shot by gunmen in his home in Maiduguri.
Arif Yunus, 60, is a well-known historian and researcher of conflicts across the Caucasus, focusing mainly on the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mostly Armenian-populated region that Armenian-backed separatists seized from Azerbaijan during a war in the early 1990s.
Separatists predicted a surge in support for an independent Catalonia.
Thousands have been killed in the south during a separatist insurgency.
Rahul Pandita, an associate editor with the Open magazine in Delhi, is a journalist and author who belongs to the Kashmiri Pandit community, Hindus who had to flee the Kashmir Valley in the early 1990s during a separatist insurgency by the Muslim majority.
Abkhazia, a small region bordered by the Black Sea and Russia, has been effectively independent since separatists drove out government forces during a 1992-93 war.
