Sakha Republic self-determination

[Peterski]

Do Yakuts want independence? They have access to the sea and ethnic Sakha are >50% in their republic.

[Peterski]

If Sakha Republic was independent, it would be the 8th largest country in the world (between 7th India and 9th Argentina).

If Chukotka Autonomous Okrug also joins this country, then it will be 7th largest - bigger than India (and behind Australia).

[KirillMazur]

All these "games of democracy" are obviously losing. Since, overseas sponsors will always find the opportunity to finance the most brainless and vociferous. It usually ends with much more blood, if the most stupid and hot brains are not knocked out in time.

And - "punitive psychiatry" must be revived. There are no peddlers of turmoil - there is no turmoil itself.

Dreams of the throne of an independent Yakut king who trades the wealth of the "independent republic of Sakha" with the West directly and at a low price are more than obvious and transparent.

National entities should be abolished, as in the USA. Stalin, by the way, also identified "cultural-national autonomies" with future centers of nationalism in the country.

The internal stability of the state is a matter of national security.
But what kind of stability can we have if we have peripheral capitalism, when some "earn" hundreds of millions, and then set the discontented population on the imported migrants, so that the people throw out the accumulated resentment in a safe direction?
Migrants lower the consumer standard, and managers, having accumulated a critical mass of migrants, will be able to lower this standard for everyone. People subconsciously understand this, that this is a very bad factor for them, but so far they cannot formulate and express it.

[Salty Ears]

Wow, and if Nunavut would be independent, it would be 13th country by territory. Very interesting

[Peterski]

Wow, and if Nunavut would be independent, it would be 13th country by territory. Very interesting

How about the United States of Sakha-Chukotka-Nunavut ???

[black hole]

Do Yakuts want independence? They have access to the sea and ethnic Sakha are >50% in their republic.

[Peterski]

Bump, because if Russia loses the war in Ukraine, this scenario might get real (various separatist movements might "activate" themselves):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_Russia

"The dissolution of Russia is a hypothetical unraveling of the Russian Federation from a unified state to various potential independent successor states.[1] The topic is the subject of hundreds of articles on the Internet.[2] The current Russian Federation is the primary successor state of the Soviet Union. Various trends and problems which may challenge the permanence of the unified Russian Federation has been discussed publicly and in academia by figures such as Garry Kasparov, Mikhail Leontyev, Herman Gref, Maxim Kalashnikov, Sergey Kurginyan, Alexander Prokhanov, Natalya Narochnitskaya, and Dmitry Medvedev.[1]"

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Here is a map of the proposed Yakut Empire (including Chukotka Autonomous Okrug):

https://mapchart.net/russia.html

[lehlund]

Another option. Since Russia at least in short term halted Beijing's military takeover of Taiwan via their poorly organized military campaign in Ukraine, it could be that in revenge, China could start eyeing parts of Siberia instead?

[sioned]

A break up of the Russian federation wouldnot be a very good idea IMHO