For most Russians, this is an integral part of the state and a kind of reason for pride, because it is famous for its incredible natural wealth, and its territories are huge.

Two quotes from the Free Idel-Ural forums.

Author No. 1: “Because the Tatars and Tatarstan, even today on the territory of the modern Volga Federal District, play the role of a locomotive, both economic, regional and political. It is no secret that on the territory of the Idel-Ural, only where the Tatars managed to survive more or less compactly, the Erzya, the Mari, the Chuvash, and the Udmurts manage to survive to some extent even thanks to them… The Tatars have always been the very axis of survival of all the ethnic masses of the Idel-Ural, they play the same role that the Germans and Germany play in the EU today.”

Author #2: “Well, you shouldn’t engage in self-aggrandizement and self-admiration, even if there is some truth in it, it is at least immodest.”

Tatars are not a monolithic mass. The main “watershed line” that will matter in the near future is the confrontation between the imperials and the regionalists. Lenar Miftakhnyky, the Tatar publicist,  describes it in such a way.

This holiday has been celebrated in the republic since 1992. The Constitution of Tatarstan was adopted on November 6, 1992 at the XII session of the Supreme Council of the Republic. The pathetic phrase “the creation of this important legal document played a significant role in the development of the political system of the region” is difficult to refute. But what is the result? And what were the hopes, do you remember?

Do you remember the children’s fairy tale about two clumsy bear cubs who could not correctly divide the found block of cheese until the fox “helped” them? It seemed to the poor bears that the main trouble was that the other had a larger piece. The fox came to help. She made and made equal until she left tiny pieces to the greedy brothers. But absolutely equal.

Today, in the center of Yoshkar-Ola, activists of the national movement of the Mari people handed out flags and stickers with the symbols of Mari El. Once it will be a big holiday, but for now it is necessary to celebrate semi-underground.

I suggest

To melt Minin,

Pozharskiy.

Why do they need a pedestal?

Praising two shopkeepers

Is enough for us,

October caught

Them behind the counters.

We didn’t break our necks

Accidentally.

I know it would fit.

Big deal,

They saved Russia!

Or maybe it would be better not to save?

Jack Althausen

We have collected and structured what various travelers and ethnographers from Muscovy wrote about the Chuvash and what kind of future they wished for the Chuvash.

A well-known Tatar national figure, a follower of Heydar Jemal, philosopher and publicist Ruslan Aisin posted on his Facebook page a news that a new movement, For Free Russia, was established in Istanbul, which included citizens of the Russian Federation currently living in Turkey.

“I’m not a racist, I’m just saying so.” ©

Of all the regions of the Russian Federation, only the peoples of the Caucasus are represented both on the political front and by power structures created abroad and ready at the first opportunity to join the struggle for independence already on the territory of their republics.

The author of this text is Shamil Amangildin, head of the Bashkortostan branch of the Federative Party. The material is very debatable, it is difficult to agree with the author on some issues, but his approach to the problem makes one think, and this is already a lot.

From open sources, we became aware of the initiative to convene the Congress of People’s Deputies in Jablonna city, Poland (November 4-7, 2022). The delegates of the Congress are representatives of the deputy corps of Russia of different years and different levels, elected in internationally recognized elections. Their common platform is the rejection of the war between Russia and Ukraine, which began in 2014, and the readiness to change the social and political system that has been established in the Russian Federation. The organizers of the event announced the adoption of the Declaration on the constitutional principles of Free Russia after the overthrow of Putin’s regime, a list of priority decisions of the post-Putin Russian government, etc.

Sergey Konofolskyi, the Russian occupier (now deceased), wrote in his social media account, “If it weren’t for the Russian Empire and the USSR, then mambets would still shit behind their yurts!” One of the users responds to this statement, “It’s not true, for example, even when there were no amenities in the house, the Tatars had a kumgan, a copper jug ​​with warm water, which they took with them to the toilet. Once I was in a Russian village in Orenburg region, I asked where the toilet was, they said behind the barn, I went there and did not find it, I returned and said, “Where is it? I did not find it.” They said, “The toilet is behind the barn.”

The Kremlin’s main weapon has always been the same: callousness and cruelty towards its own citizens in general, and towards soldiers in particular. The same attitude that has been professed and proclaimed for centuries by its commanders: “Women will give birth to more!”