Exactly 35 years ago, the central authorities allowed Sverdlovsk enthusiasts to print their own francs. Today, the history of this exotic currency is linked to the Ural Republic — a project that seriously influenced all of Russian politics in the 1990s.

#1990s #BorisYeltsin #Russianhistory #aftertheUSSR #Regions #Russia #Ural #UralRepublic #federalism #EduardRossel

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«I see no reason why democratic, free, independent Karelia, Ingria, Smalandia, or Amberland (even if some of these names still sound fantastical to some) couldn’t become part of the European Union or NATO in the foreseeable future,» says Ukrainian politician Oleg Magaletsky. A participant in the Orange Revolution and the Revolution of Pride, in 2022 he founded the Forum of Free States Post-Russia — an international discussion platform whose participants aim for the breakup of the Russian Federation into several independent states. Most.Media publishes his conversation with Vadim Shtepa, editor-in-chief of the magazine Region.Expert.

#future #WarinUkraine #state #dictatorship #discussion #Empire #independentstate #society #aftertheUSSR #republics #Russia #freedom #Ukraine #federalism #Emigration

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Today, many representatives of national-regional movements in political exile have a clear disappointment in the Russian federal project, since it has repeatedly (both after 1918 and after 1991) led only to yet another revival of a centralist empire. Therefore, they find no common ground even with the new liberal opposition, which in its dreams of a beautiful future Russia sometimes oddly repeats Kremlin unitarist ideas.

#future #decoloniality #Yeltsin #Empire #History #nation #society #aftertheUSSR #protests #Putin #republics #Russia #federalism #language

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