Making Russia Multicultural Kazan at Its Millennium and Beyond
@article{Graney2007MakingRM, title={Making Russia Multicultural Kazan at Its Millennium and Beyond}, author={Katherine Graney}, journal={Problems of Post-Communism}, year={2007}, volume={54}, pages={17 - 27} }
Putin may be more willing than imagined to buy into Tatarstan's bottom-up form of federalism, which emphasizes the culturally plural nature of the Russian Federation.
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