1. Neither the right to self-determination, nor separatism as a way of its practical implementation, are by any means novelties. The problem became especially actual exactly where they were quite recently convinced that the task of national self-determination had long been solved theoretically and successfully done with practically - in the geopolitical space that is called post-Soviet. The history often revenges those who tries to accelerate its pace by simply moving hands of time.
2. The civilized world has developed other forms of self-determination, for example, cultural autonomy, various types of federal and confederative state system, variants of national-territorial formations with optional economic independence, and, at last, interstate integration, when a participant voluntary delegates part of its national sovereignty to the center. In the clamor raised by supporters of separatist secession,  these forms of joint residing of different people and ethnic groups were somehow forgotten.
3. Violent tearing common territory apart makes yesterday's citizens of the same state eternal enemies. To be able to find out some mutually acceptable option proposing refusal of the 'my land' in the name of preserving sufficient degree of self-determination is to make healthier not just relations between certain countries, but the whole the international atmosphere as well. To the conflicting parties, it is difficult, however, to immediately overcome the existing alienation and animosities. That is what the international forces for, to be the authority to help to control fulfillment of the obligations taken by the parties involved.
4. Separatism, by making one's own right to self-determination absolete, roughly violate the rights of other peoples to secure, peaceful coexistence with all the rest nations. It is logical to assume, the ethnos failed to co-exist with other nationalities within one and the same state, would unlikely get along with them having become their neighbor.
5. Right at the beginning of these reflections on the choice between self-determination and territorial integrity, which in many respects is political slyness of the external forces that consider separatism as one of the instruments to have their own strategy implemented, the question was put on: whether it is possible to have self-determination without separatism, this irrational option in one's quest to independence. The answer is, self-determination - yes, but without separatism.