Kammala wannan jumla: Yankin ya kasance batun rikice-rikicen yanki daban-daban tun bayan rushewar Tarayyar Soviet, wanda ya haifar da Yaƙin Nagorno-Karabakh na farko (1988-1994), da kuma rikice-rikicen yankin da ake kira Nagorno-Karabakh.
Yaƙin Prigorodny na Gabas (1989<unk>1991), Yaƙin Abkhazia (1992<unk>93), Yaƙin Chechen na Farko (1994<unk>1996), Yaƙin Chechen na Biyu (1999<unk>2009), da Yaƙin Ossetia ta Kudu na 2008.