I wrote:
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>For Russia, in any case, I think Tatarstan is a model. Tatarstan has as
>wide an autonomy as possible without actually being a different country.
>Dagestan, as I mentioned in a previous post, has also been quite
>marvelously successful.
>
Incidentally, if Dudayev and Maskhadov had opted for the Tatar model, instead of being egomaniacal gits, Chechnya today might well be rather like Tatarstan, and you would have a lot fewer dead people in the Caucasus.
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