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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A semiautonomous region of west-central Russia. The site of a powerful Bulgar state after the 8th century, the region was conquered by Mongols in the 13th century and by Moscow in 1552. The Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established in 1920, and in 1991 it declared its independence. Along with Chechnya, the republic was not a signatory to the 1992 treaty that created the Russian Federation, but it did join later, in 1994.
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autonomous republic in eastEuropean Russia
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Examples
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In several parts of the Caucasus, old-style compacts between local rulers and “tame” clerics have alienated young people; but in Tatarstan they still seem to work quite well.
Russia's Muslims: A Benign Growth JDsg 2007
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Putin and United Russia, mobilizing the homeless, police, falsifying results in regions such as Tatarstan, Bashkiria and the North Caucasus, controlling the media and whipping up hysteria against foreign enemies.
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This refers above all to the Muslim republics on the middle Volga such as Tatarstan and Bashkortostan.
openDemocracy felicitycave 2009
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Russian media report that even in hitherto tranquil Russian regions such as Tatarstan and Bashkiria, Muslim separatists have become more independence-minded of late.
European Tribune 2008
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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
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It is true that two traditionally Muslim republics—Tatarstan and Chechnya—were the most assertive autonomy seekers.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The boat went down in the Volga River about 750 kilometers east of Moscow in the republic of Tatarstan.
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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
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Tatar President Shaymiev endorsed him in February, because, in his words, Yeltsin “adheres to democracy more than others, and guarantees the current relationship between Tatarstan and the center.”
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The first, with Tatarstan in February 1994, gave the republic more control over its natural resources and greater freedom to engage in foreign trade; it authorized the Tatar government to create a national bank and to exempt its young men from conscription.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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