Bashkortostan

Hoping to avoid unrest, Yeltsin has offered tax breaks and increased autonomy to ethnic republics, such as Bashkortostan, 700 miles east of Moscow.

Yeltsin's Coup De Grace 2008

Unlike in Tatarstan or Bashkortostan, where Soviet leaders had sought to coopt potential nationalists by creating a caste of indigenous apparatchiks, Chechens and Ingush received no affirmative action.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

He telephoned the heads of the ethnic republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan and told them firmly to pay their taxes.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Its negotiators tried to craft a bilateral agreement like those signed later with Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, but Dudayev would not settle for less than complete independence.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

After agreements were signed with other Muslim republics such as Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, and Kabardino-Balkaria, the danger of a broader conflagration was much weaker.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

Its negotiators tried to craft a bilateral agreement like those signed later with Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, but Dudayev would not settle for less than complete independence.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

After agreements were signed with other Muslim republics such as Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, and Kabardino-Balkaria, the danger of a broader conflagration was much weaker.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

To hear Rakhimov defending democracy was curious given the authoritarian choke hold he had established over Bashkortostan, but his decision to speak out said much about the political moment.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

He telephoned the heads of the ethnic republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan and told them firmly to pay their taxes.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

The agreement with Bashkortostan, concluded some months later, gave that republic authority over its budget, prosecutor, and judiciary.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011