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ETHNICITY in RUSSIA
The Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
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Russia’s Russia’s YakutYakut region region
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YAKUTIA and the YAKUTS
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YAKUTIA | The Sakha Republic
• 1/5 of Russia’s land area• Region poorly linked to rest of world• Enormous resource reserves• Yakut/Sakha speak an Altaic (Turkic)
language• Ethnic are concentrated in 10 urban areas• Sakha predominate in rural areas
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Rising ethnic demands as nationalism grows
• Events of 1990– Declaration of “state sovereignty”– Elected president and parliament– Adopted coat of arms and constitution
• Has obtained special rights– Controls mineral rights– Does not allow nuclear testing in Yakutia– 1997, withheld some tax revenue from Moscow
• 1995 survey found most Yakuts more loyal to Sakha than Russia– Surprisingly – a third of all Russians in Yakutia felt the same
• Russians continue to emigrate from the region
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