Tag: Rashit Akhmetov

Putin Needs the Volga Tatars, Giving Kazan Real Leverage

November 21, 2014

Staunton, November 21 – Vladimir Putin rarely has been willing to retreat from any of his decisions even when they have clearly been shown to be wrong, but he has done so in the case of the office of the presidency in Tatarstan, an indication of just how important the Volga Tatars have become for […]

Putin’s Suppression of Tatarstan Sovereignty Has Cost Every Tatar 70,000 US Dollars in Income

September 2, 2014

Ukraine

Window on Eurasia

Staunton, August 30 – Vladimir Putin’s gutting of Tatarstan’s 1990 sovereignty declaration has cost every resident of that Middle Volga republic not only his or her rights and dignity but also has meant that some 70,000 US dollars earned from the sale of Tatarstan’s natural resources that should have gone to each of them has […]

1990 August 30 Boris Yeltsin Day of the Republic Declaration on the State Sovereignty of the Republic of Tatarstan Gumer Usmanov Kazan Middle Volga republic Mintimir Shaimiyev Oil revenues Paul Goble Rashit Akhmetov Tatar Language Tatarstan’s 1990 sovereignty declaration Tatarstan’s natural resources Tatarstan’s Popular Front Treaty on the Delimitation of Authority USSR