A Year in Review: Middle Volga Republics Becoming an Ever Bigger Headache for Moscow
Both individually and as a group, the six non-Russian republics of the Middle Volga — Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Udmurtia, Mordvinia, Mari El and Chuvashia (collectively known as the Idel-Ural) — have become a radically more serious problem for Moscow over the last year, challenging it in new ways and old.
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