Curated playlist
Members of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
- BashkortostanRussia unilaterally abolished Bashkortostan's 1994 powers agreement on the 7th of July 2005.
- IngushetiaIngushetia is one of Russia's poorest republics, yet in 2017 it had the country's highest life expectancy.
- PalauPalau is an island country made up of roughly 340 islands in the western Pacific Ocean, with a total land area of only 466 square kilometres. That makes it the sixteenth smallest nation in the world. Its own name for the islands is Belau,…
- GuamA German raider exploded in Guam's Apra Harbor in 1917 after its captain refused to surrender it.
- LatviaLatvia was occupied three times in a single war. The Baltic country later sang its way back to freedom.
- Sakha RepublicThe Sakha Republic in Russia is larger than Argentina but has only about one million people.
- Komi RepublicPrisoners planned and built all of the Komi Republic's major cities. Vorkuta began as a mine, Rudnik No. 1.
- EstoniaEstonia became the first country to allow nationwide binding Internet voting, in 2005.
- Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C., belongs to Congress, not to any state. Its residents pay federal taxes but have no vote there.
- Khalistan movementThe first explicit call for Khalistan came in 1940, in a pamphlet that took the word as its title. The Khalistan movement is a campaign for a sovereign homeland for Sikhs in the Punjab region, an ethno-religious state that has never…