Russia's North Caucasus

 Chechnya[1] [2] [3] [4]

  • People: Chechens
    • Militant organisation: Chechen separatists
    • Proposed state: Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (1991–99) Many chechen separatists have now moved to fight for the Caucasus Emirate (see below), but to what extent islamism has replaced chechen nationalism is unclear [5], particularly since it is difficult for journalists to gain access to the region [6]

Circassia [7] [8] [9] [10]

Karachay-Balkaria [12]

    • Proposed state: Karachay-Balkar Republic (includes south Kabardino-Balkaria and south Karachey-Cherkessia)

Abazinia in central-north Karachay–Cherkessia

[A new Abazin district was created in 2005? https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AmfABgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA175&ots=mzfLEbwYs8&dq=abazin%20autonomy&pg=PA175#v=onepage&q=abazin%20autonomy&f=false I cannot find any sources that Abazins are still seeking an independent state, but there are sources saying they still seek increased autonomy] http://www.marszalek.com.pl/yearbook/docs/41/ppsy2012006.pdf ]

Kumykia in north Dagestan [13] [14] [15] [16]


Russia's other European regions

Tatarstan Tatarstan [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]

Advocates: Tatar Youth Union "Azatlyk" Tatar Patriotic Front Altyn Urda, the Tatar Social Center [23]

Udmurtia Udmurtia[24]

Chuvashia Chuvashia

  • Movement: Chuvash national movement [25] (Should this be moved to historical movements? source unclear)
    • Organisations: Chuvash Ireklekh Society of National-Cultural Rebirth
    • Former organisations: Chuvash Youth Union banned in 2000, Assembly of the Peoples of the Volga and Urals, Fund of Vasilii Mitta and the Cultural Center of the Turkic world dissolved as not registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Chuvash Republic
    • Former political party: Chuvash Party of National Rebirth banned in 2000
      • Proposed state: Chavash Jen (Chuvash Republic) or Idel-Ural [26] or restoration of Chuvash Republic as a state within the Russian Federation [27]


Mari El Mari El

Mordovia Mordovia

Bashkortostan Bashkortostan [28]

Komi Republic Komi Republic[30] [31]

Karelia[32] [33]

  • People: [[Karelian people|Karelian]

Kalmykia Kalmykia[citation needed]

Kuban and Rostov Oblast [34]

Krasnodar Krai (Kuban) [36]

North Caucasus near Terek


Kalingrad [37] [38] [39] [40]

  • People:
    • Movement: Kaliningrad Public Movement ‘Respublika’
      • Proposed state: Independence and reintegration in Europe; federalisation.


http://allrussias.com/essays/2010/edwards.pdf may be useful if list is turned into article

  1. ^ http://www.rferl.org/a/russia-chechnya-zakayev-kadyrov/27561879.html
  2. ^ http://oc-media.org/a-third-chechen-war-is-inevitable-the-only-question-is-when/
  3. ^ http://therawrreport.net/article/2016/12/17/%E2%80%9Cwe-are-forgotten-we-have-not-forgotten%E2%80%9D-chechens-rally-across-europe-remember
  4. ^ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lVuNBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA117&ots=4fzu8MLWCB&dq=brian%20beary%20separatist%20movements&pg=PA117#v=onepage&q=brian%20beary%20separatist%20movements&f=
  5. ^ http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/23761199.2014.11417292
  6. ^ http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2017/03/reporting-ramzan-kadyrov-chechnya-170311140956759.html
  7. ^ http://jaimoukha.synthasite.com/circassian-independence.php
  8. ^ https://jamestown.org/program/circassian-activists-in-russia-become-a-serious-force-2/
  9. ^ http://circassianidentity.blogspot.co.uk/p/circassians-today.html
  10. ^ http://www.rug.nl/research/portal/files/2755213/HagendoornL-Support-2008.pdf
  11. ^ http://www.unpo.org/article/11187
  12. ^ http://www.speroforum.com/a/28694/Balkar-Activists-Demand-SelfDetermination#.WNL3CqKkJPY
  13. ^ http://minorityrights.org/minorities/kumyks/
  14. ^ http://www.rferl.org/a/russia-daghestan-kumyks-laks/25083108.html
  15. ^ https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/crimea-vote-galvanizes-separatists-in-russia-32965
  16. ^ http://www.rug.nl/research/portal/files/2755213/HagendoornL-Support-2008.pdf
  17. ^ http://www.islamicworld.it/wp/tatarstan-and-bashkortostan-political-and-religious-test-for-tsar-putin/
  18. ^ http://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=russ_honors
  19. ^ http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/extending-moscow-kazan-power-sharing.html
  20. ^ http://www.rug.nl/research/portal/files/2755213/HagendoornL-Support-2008.pdf
  21. ^ https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/crimea-vote-galvanizes-separatists-in-russia-32965
  22. ^ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7ydo7Idyqj0C&lpg=PA176&ots=mk1gyTkNSK&dq=Council%20of%20Aksakals%20of%20Bashkortostan&pg=PR34#v=onepage&q=Council%20of%20Aksakals%20of%20Bashkortostan&f=false
  23. ^ http://www.interpretermag.com/minority-nations-in-russia-unite-and-denounce-putins-policies/
  24. ^ http://www.rug.nl/research/portal/files/2755213/HagendoornL-Support-2008.pdf
  25. ^ https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/34653/scriptie.chuvash.tatiana.egorova.pdf?sequence=1
  26. ^ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pGClDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA534&ots=ckF5SAF0zX&dq=chuvash%20party%20of%20national%20rebirth&pg=PA105#v=onepage&q=chuvash&f=false
  27. ^ http://www.interpretermag.com/minority-nations-in-russia-unite-and-denounce-putins-policies/
  28. ^ http://www.rug.nl/research/portal/files/2755213/HagendoornL-Support-2008.pdf
  29. ^ http://www.interpretermag.com/minority-nations-in-russia-unite-and-denounce-putins-policies/
  30. ^ http://www.rug.nl/research/portal/files/2755213/HagendoornL-Support-2008.pdf
  31. ^ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2016/09/21/how-separatists-are-prosecuted-in-russia
  32. ^ http://www.rug.nl/research/portal/files/2755213/HagendoornL-Support-2008.pdf
  33. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/15/russia-fledgling-independence-movements
  34. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/15/russia-fledgling-independence-movements
  35. ^ "Kuban youth would join Ukraine rather than Moscow". interpretermag.com. June 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  36. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/15/russia-fledgling-independence-movements
  37. ^ https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/crimea-vote-galvanizes-separatists-in-russia-32965
  38. ^ https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/daniil-kotsyubinsky/what-is-behind-mask-of-revolution-global-separatism-in-russian-context
  39. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/15/russia-fledgling-independence-movements
  40. ^ http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/11/kaliningrad-last-wall-europe-20141116114613645536.html