> Just out of curiosity, is he a Russian, a Tatar or a Bashkir? Ethnic
> relations in Bashkortostan are really interesting.
>
Husband is Bashkir according to passport though his father is Tatar. His mother liked to listen to Channel 3 Bashkir language broadcasts every day when we visited. --- They took the natoinalities off the new passports around 1996. It just says "Russian citizen" now.
Bashkortostan is going through this wierd ethnic tensions thing with the Bashkirs reying to Bashkirize the place, which the Tatars and Russians don't mind. There are more Tatars in Bashkortostan than Bashkirs, and more Russians.