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Republics of Russia

  • BashkortostanRussia unilaterally abolished Bashkortostan's 1994 powers agreement on the 7th of July 2005.
  • ChechnyaIn 1944, the entire Chechen and Ingush peoples were deported. Over 60 percent of those deported perished.
  • DagestanDagestan, Russia's southernmost republic, has 14 official languages. Its mountains keep communities apart.
  • IngushetiaIngushetia is one of Russia's poorest republics, yet in 2017 it had the country's highest life expectancy.
  • BuryatiaBuryatia's Soviet-era leaders were promised autonomy, then lost land and the word Mongol.
  • TuvaPhysicist Richard Feynman never managed to reach Tuva, a republic in Russia. His long attempt became a book.
  • KalmykiaKalmykia is the only place in Europe where Buddhism is the majority religion.
  • 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.
  • Republic of Crimea (Russia)In March 2014, Crimea voted on joining Russia with less than two weeks to prepare.
  • Republics of RussiaIn July 1990, Boris Yeltsin told Russia's republics to "take as much sovereignty as you can swallow."

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