Russian borders are and will  remain unstable, because Russian hundreds of years old colonization policy. And current Russian politics are not doing anything to make things correct - actually just the opposite.

This is actually the situation with several Russian neighbour countries. 

Geok Tepe, 1881 ended the resistance at Turkmenistan but there was a rebellion in 1920 and Turkmenia got independence again, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Chechnya is an open wound with continuos rebellion from the 1995.

Read the article at NowPublic: Georgia vs. South Ossetia: roots of a 100-year conflict

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