List of conflicts in territory of the former Soviet Union

This is a list of the violent political and ethnic conflicts in the countries of the former Soviet Union following its dissolution in 1991.

Some of these conflicts such as the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis or the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests in Ukraine were due to political crises in the successor states.

Others involved separatist movements attempting to break away from one of the successor states.

In many instances, these territories have institutions which are similar to those of fully-fledged independent states, albeit with little or no international recognition, including Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Georgia; Transnistria in Moldova; and previously, the Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic in Ukraine.

Abkhazia and South Ossetia have received recognition from Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Nauru and Syria.