RFE/RL Russian Federation Report on forthcoming census
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RFE/RL Russian Federation Report on forthcoming census
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RFE/RL Russian Federation Report
Vol. 4, No. 5, 13 February 2002
A Survey of Developments in the Regions Outside Moscow Prepared by
the Staff of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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BASHKORTOSTAN
DEPUTY FROM BASHKORTOSTAN WANTS TO POSTPONE CENSUS. State Duma deputy
(Russian Regions) Franis Saifullin said on 9 February that Moscow's
plan to divide Tatars into several ethnic groups in the 2002 census is
aimed at eliminating the Republic of Tatarstan, RFE/RL's Kazan bureau
reported on 11 February, citing Tatarstan Radio. He said that if
federal authorities do not give up on the idea, he will appeal to
Tatarstan's legislature to postpone the census in the republic.
Saifullin assumes the division of Tatars in the census will likely
result in their totaling less than 50 percent of the population in
Tatarstan. The Duma will then pass legislation to annul national
republics where titular nations constitute less than half of the
population, he asserted. Tatars currently make up some 52 percent of
Tatarstan's inhabitants. JAC
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