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After a war in the late 1980s and early 90s, when the region’s majority Armenian population sought to secede from the newly independent country of Azerbaijan, Nagorno-Karabakh was hotly contested by the two former Soviet republics.
Source: https://thenewtoday.gd/defeated-by-force-he-announced-the-dissolution-of-nagorno-karabakh/
Given that self-described had provided the muscle behind the coup and that the new regime was explicitly anti-Russian – going so far as to ban Russian from public discourse – the persecuted residents of the Donbas had every right to secede.
It joined the list of to secede from the Commonwealth and as with most others, the move stemmed from a dispute with local authorities.
Of course, it is not at all sure that everyone will secede!