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Demonstrations are rare enough in Russia for those that occurred this week in Bashkortostan, south of the Urals, one of the twenty-two republics in the Russian Federation, to attract attention, particularly in Moscow where there are fears above all the agitation of “minorities
”.
“There are no riots or mass demonstrations,”
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov assured Friday while a new gathering of some two thousand people took place in Ufa, the capital of this republic of 143,000 km2, also called “Bakchiria”, strongly endowed with energy wealth and populated by 4 million inhabitants, mostly Muslims.
The day before, the regional governor, Radi Khabirov, had denounced calls for “separatism” after a demonstration which took place in Baimak, a town located 400 km from Ufa.
In freezing cold, the protesters came to support Faïl Alsynov, one of the standard bearers...
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