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Republics of Russia
- BashkortostanBashkortostan sits wedged between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains, a republic the size of a small country that most people in the world have never…
- ChechnyaChechnya sits wedged between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea in a corner of Eastern Europe that has refused, for centuries, to be governed by anyone who…
- DagestanDagestan holds a distinction that most people would never guess: it is the southernmost tip of Russia, a republic that shares borders not just with fellow…
- IngushetiaIngushetia holds a distinction that defies easy explanation: it is one of the poorest, most conflict-scarred republics in Russia, and yet, as of 2017, it…
- BuryatiaBuryatia sits at a crossroads that few maps quite capture. The Republic of Buryatia borders Mongolia to the south, and to its north lies Lake Baikal, the…
- TuvaTuva sits at the geographical center of Asia, a republic within Russia that most of the world has never heard of. Physicist Richard Feynman became so…
- KalmykiaKalmykia is the only place in Europe where Buddhism is the majority religion. Tucked into the steppes of southern Russia, this republic of roughly 275,000…
- Sakha RepublicThe Sakha Republic covers more than 3,083,523 square kilometres of the Russian Far East, making it the single largest country subdivision on Earth.
- Komi RepublicThe Komi Republic sits in the northeast of European Russia, a territory larger than Germany, where forests cover more than 70% of the land and winter…
- Republic of Crimea (Russia)The Republic of Crimea sits on a peninsula that juts into the Black Sea, and its legal status depends entirely on who you ask.
- Republics of RussiaOn the 15th of November 1917, Vladimir Lenin issued the Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia. This document promised minorities the right to…