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Post Neon Knight Wed 4 Oct - 23:37

This article is three years old but I don't suppose things will have changed much:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/15/russia-fledgling-independence-movements Abridged:

Moscow appears to have successfully blocked efforts hold a march in favour of Siberian independence in Novosibirsk, the country’s third most populous city, this Sunday. But Russian authorities have failed to prevent the ideas behind it from spreading not only to other Siberian cities like Yekaterinburg, but also – and more seriously – to Kaliningrad and Kuban.

One Moscow commentator, Vladimir Titov, argues that Kaliningraders don’t have all the bases for launching an independence movement, but he suggests that “the single place in Russia where at present regionalism as a political direction has real prospects” is precisely there. Kaliningrad’s non-contiguous location, its proximity to European Union countries, and the fact that 25% of its residents have Schengen visas and 60% have foreign passports, all have the effect of making ever more Kaliningraders look towards Europe rather than toward Russia proper.

Making concessions to Kaliningrad’s special situation seems entirely reasonable, Titov says, but “then a question arises: “If Kaliningrad can, why can’t Siberia? And just who is to say that it can’t?” But interest in federalisation is not limited to Siberia and Kaliningrad. There are regionalist movements in Karelia, Ingermanland, Novgorod and elsewhere, and they have now been joined by a new one: in Kuban.

Though these movements are small and fledgling, from Moscow’s perspective, this will still be disturbing. Not only does it suggest that the centre may be losing its grip over at least some regions, but it raises the spectre of regional separatism of the kind that spread through the Russian Federation in the early 1990s and that Russian president Vladimir Putin has worked hard to suppress.





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Post Neon Knight Wed 4 Oct - 23:44

This is from two years ago: http://www.newsweek.com/separatist-threat-putins-mother-russia-east-356840 Abridged:

“I’m Siberian.” This simple but loud slogan has been emblazoned on merchandise from iPhone cases to T-shirts since 2012, as part of a branding campaign aimed at changing global perceptions of this huge chunk of Russian tundra. The “I’m Siberian” brand encapsulates a growing sense of pride and self-identity among Siberian youth. But where has this sentiment come from, and what does it mean for Russia?

In recent years, this icy expanse has seen political activism and regionalism ignited, as Stanislav Zakharkin, a Russian sociologist, writes in Eurozine. Yet Siberian nationalism is not a new phenomenon.

In the 19th century, an argument evolved among Siberian intellectuals that the region had effectively been colonized by Russia. Having been tossed aside as a penal colony for centuries, Siberia’s economic concerns, long neglected by those in power in Russia’s far west, seem to have been paramount to the people who lived there.

According to influential works at the time, such as Nikolai Yadrintsev’s 1892 book Siberia as a Colony, the imperial center was exploiting Siberia’s abundant natural resources through an uneven trade and revenue system. This system was enforced by a central political bureaucracy and a lack of cultural or intellectual investment in the region, all designed to submerge Siberians into the wider Russian Empire.

Following the collapse of Tsarist Russia, the region was quickly swallowed up again by the highly centralized Soviet Union. The economic inequalities in the relationship between Russia’s central government and Siberia have thus never been resolved.

Last year, the gulf between the growth of Siberian pride and the conservative federal government reaction found a stark embodiment in a proposed “March for the Federalization of Siberia.” The demonstration, due to be held in Novosibirsk in August 2014, was banned by the Russian government, with a media blackout imposed and several organizers arrested.

Putin’s harsh response implies a degree of fear that the federalist movement is in danger of succeeding and threatening his centralizing agenda. In comments to the press in December 2014, Putin reignited the commonly held suspicion among Russian nationalists that outside powers intend to annex Siberia for themselves.

If the status quo continues—and with it, the perception that the centralized government is benefiting from an unequal and exploitative economic and political system—Moscow could face a real problem in the coming years.




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Post Jehan I Fri 6 Oct - 18:00

When I heard about "independance movement in Russia", I was (edit: wasn't) thinking about siberia.
I discover by hazard that there was an Ukrainian state in siberia before communism invade them. Russian state send soem ukrainians to colonyze the place, and they decide to create there own state who live for some years. A strange history considering the actual events.

I thinks many independance movement are kill by Moscow. But once Moscow power fall, we can have some surprise.
At the fall of soviet union, tatars and some other ask for independances. They didn't get but the question is still here.
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Post Neon Knight Sat 7 Oct - 22:52

Let's have a look at Kaliningrad . . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad_Oblast#Population  Quoting:

Independence Movements in Russia 420px-Kaliningrad_Oblast_within_Europe.svg

Kaliningrad Oblast is a federal subject of the Russian Federation that is located on the coast of the Baltic Sea. As an oblast, its constitutional status is equal to each of the other 84 federal subjects. Its administrative center is the city of Kaliningrad, formerly known as Königsberg. It is the only Baltic port in the Russian Federation that remains ice-free in winter. According to the 2010 census, it had a population of 941,873.

The oblast is an exclave so visa-free travel to the main part of Russia is only possible by sea or air. The territory was formerly part of East Prussia. With the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, the territory was annexed by the Soviet Union. Following the post-war migration and expulsion of the German-speaking population, the territory was populated with citizens from the Soviet Union. Today virtually no ethnic Germans remain; most of the several thousand that live there are recent immigrants from other parts of the former Soviet Union.

According to the 2010 Census, the ethnic composition of the oblast was as follows:

   772,534 Russians (86.4%)
   32,771 Ukrainians (3.7%)
   32,497 Belarusians (3.6%)
   9,769 Lithuanians (1.1%)
   9,226 Armenians (1%)
   7,349 Germans (0.8%)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Kaliningrad_Oblast  Quoting:

The EU and Russia have had a serious political debate over the oblast territory. The enlargement of the EU in 2004, through which Poland and Lithuania became member states, meant that the oblast now has land borders only with the EU. Issues of security have been at the forefront of debate, with high relevance to the Schengen Agreement.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, some intellectuals and government officials in the oblast openly discussed the region separating from Russia. In the mid-1990s, Yuri Matochkin, the oblast's first post-Soviet governor, demanded a special relationship with the EU and threatened a referendum on secession, abetting fears in Moscow about the centrifugal forces of separatism. His attempts at elevating the oblast's status to that of a sovereign republic associated with the Russian Federation yielded no results. Around the same time, the secessionist Baltic Republican Party, banned in 2005, aimed at establishing the oblast as the "fourth Baltic state". However, an organized secessionist movement has never emerged there and surveys indicate strong support for remaining a part of Russia.




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Post Jehan I Sun 8 Oct - 8:28

Kaliningrad (or Königsberg) has pretty active independantists. The movement has been forbid to be present at election but they are still around (http://koenigsberg-eu.blogspot.fr/).

What can block the process is there is big russians base in this territory. Even in case of election would be allow, russians soldiers will all vote gainst and it represent a relevant part of the population.
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