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Former Official Says Moscow Punishing Ethnic Republics

Rafail Khakimov

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June 10, 2009
A former regional official says the Russian Constitutional Court's directive this week to 11 of its "ethnic republics" ordering them to eliminate all references in their constitutions to "sovereignty" is an attempt to punish those entities, which enjoy greater autonomy from Moscow, RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service reports. More

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