I mean, Scottish separatism got time on RT. Hell, Russia ran that “international conference of separatists” that involved Texas and a bunch of other places. Russia amplifying separatists isn’t exactly new.

https://qz.com/506701/russia-hosted-a-conference-of-the-worlds-separatists-including-hawaiians-from-the-us

Russia, where separatism is illegal, hosted a conference for foreign separatist groups

Russia invited a bunch of international separatist groups, including dissidents from Ireland, Spain, Italy, the US, and Ukraine, to discuss “the right to self-determination” to a Moscow conference—despite “separatism” being a crime in Russia.

Here they are way back in 2016:

https://abcnews.com/International/texas-california-separatists-attend-pro-kremlin-conference/story?id=42395066

Texas, California Separatists Attend Kremlin-Funded Conference

Meet the attendees of Moscow’s international conference of separatists.

I mean, it’s hip and cool to shit on russia at the moment, but I can’t not notice

> Regressive, separatist movement
> looks inside
> Supported by rusdian social media campaign