Free Tatarstan! We officially recognize its independence.
Kazan is the name of a city in RuZZia.
Is that where you live?
Free Tatarstan! We officially recognize its independence.
“Kazan is the name of a city in RuZZia.”
Actually, it is in Russian occupied Tatarstan (Tataria)
(Financial Times, https://www.ft.com/content/d66c61e8-8511-459a-9116-70703ff2471f ): “As one official from Tatarstan’s government-in-exile recently said: “Our struggle for independence has not yet started.”...
...This time may be different. Not only have these colonised nationalities watched the Kremlin’s pledges of federalism evaporate yet again, but western governments are more willing to recognise Russia for what it is: an unreconstructed empire, bent on reclaiming former colonies and adding them to the pile it still controls. Any movements emerging in opposition to this Russian colonialism are increasingly worth supporting...
...The west must, then, be ready for what comes next, including a possible Soviet-style disintegration. The historian Michael Khodarkovsky wrote in 2016: “We should not be taken by surprise if one day Russia itself implodes, as the [USSR] did.” All empires eventually splinter apart. Thinking Putin’s — and Russia’s — will be any different is just another failure of imagination.”