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Nations

What stands on the map: the makeup of every nation, the movements behind it and their strength — and the movements’ own word about their nation.

43nations
4strong
20no movement
37movements

How strength is counted

strong4 nations
notable14 nations
weak5 nations
no movement20 nations
A movement’s strength is how many views per week its public Telegram channels gather: the median views of a post times the number of posts per week, counting no more than one post a day. Subscribers do not count: not everyone subscribed reads.
A channel has to be alive: silence longer than six weeks lowers its strength, and a year of silence brings it to zero.
Movements, organizations, committees, governments, military and partisan structures count in full; communities, law, projects and ecology at half; culture, language, history and analysis at a third.
Regional media and periodicals do not count at all — otherwise the map would show circulation, not movement.
A movement behind several nations splits its weight between them and is not counted in full by each.
Nations without a living movement stay grey and unlabelled on the map — the name opens on hover and click.

All nations

MakeupMovements
BashkortostanБашкортостан
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The Orenburg region is added to Bashkortostan as a corridor to Kazakhstan.

Öfö Bashkortostan, Orenburg Oblast Bashkortostan · Idel-Ural (confederation) 12k
KareliaКарелия Petroskoy Republic of Karelia Karelia · Vepsia (Jumou) 11k
IchkeriaИчкерия
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Ichkeria stands apart from the other nations — as a state that is already independent.

Djohar Chechnya Ichkeria 11k
UdmurtiaУдмуртия Izhkar Udmurtia Udmurtia · Idel-Ural (confederation) 11k
KubanКубань
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The Kuban Cossack Host and «Malinovy Klin» carry Kuban as a state of its own within the borders of Krasnodar Krai.

Yekaterinodar Krasnodar Krai Free Cossack movement · Kuban 6.9k
Belgorod People's RepublicБелгородская Народная Республика
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Belgorod has a statehood project of its own (@belnarrepublic) — the nation stands apart here because a living movement is behind it.

Belgorod Belgorod Oblast Belgorod People's Republic 6.3k
IngushetiaИнгушетия Magas Ingushetia Ingushetia 5.8k
TatarstanТатарстан Kazan Tatarstan Idel-Ural (confederation) · Tatarstan 5.6k
ChuvashiaЧувашия Shupashkar Chuvashia Idel-Ural (confederation) · Chuvashia 3.7k
United States of SiberiaСоединённые Штаты Сибири
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Siberia is drawn as a single mass from the Ob to Baikal, Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk included.

Novosibirsk Novosibirsk Oblast, Omsk Oblast, Tomsk Oblast, Kemerovo Oblast, Altai Krai, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Irkutsk Oblast Siberia 3.2k
IngriaИнгрия St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg, Leningrad oblast Ingria 3.0k
Don RepublicДонская Республика
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The Don movement carries the Don within the Rostov and Volgograd regions. Kuban and Terek stand on the map as separate nations; Astrakhan is Nogai El's.

Rostov-on-Don Rostov Oblast, Volgograd Oblast Free Cossack movement · Don 2.9k
SmalandiaСмаландия
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Smalandia is the Smolensk and Bryansk regions.

Smolensk Smolensk Oblast, Bryansk Oblast Smolensk Land 2.6k
BuryatiaБурятия
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Transbaikalia is part of the same state: one Buryat-Mongol state around Baikal.

Ulan-Ude Buryatia, Zabaykalsky Krai Buryatia 2.5k
TerekТерек
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The Terek movement carries Terek within the borders of Stavropol Krai.

Stavropol Stavropol Krai Free Cossack movement · Terek 2.3k
Pacific FederationТихоокеанская Федерация
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The core of the nation is Primorye and Priamurye; Sakhalin and the Jewish Autonomous Oblast are placed here by sense.

Khabarovsk Khabarovsk Krai, Primorsky Krai, Amur Oblast, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Sakhalin Oblast Zelenyi Klyn 2.3k
Karachay-BalkariaКарачаево-Балкария
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Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria together: one Turkic state of the Karachays and Balkars.

Ust-Dzheguta Karachay-Cherkessia, Kabardino-Balkaria Circassia · Alania (Karachay-Balkars) 2.1k
Republic of CircassiaЧеркесия
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The Circassian capital is Shache (Sochi). In the grid of whole regions Circassia is shown as Adygea; the Circassian movement is also at work in Kabarda, which on the map is part of Karachay-Balkaria.

Shache Adygea Circassia 2.1k
Republic of SakhaСаха
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Kolyma (Magadan) is part of Sakha — no separate state is drawn on that territory.

Dyokuuskai Sakha Republic, Magadan Oblast Sakha 1.4k
Mari ElМарий Эл Yoshkar-Ola Mari El Idel-Ural (confederation) · Mari El 1.3k
Confederation of DagestanКонфедерация Дагестан
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The Kumyk plain is set apart as a separate Kumykia — it is marked with a dot on the map. The border between it and the rest of Dagestan is not drawn here.

Derbend Dagestan Dagestan 1.2k
Mokshen MastorМокшень Мастор
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A Moksha state with its capital in Saransk; on the map it holds all of Mordovia. The Erzya state stands as a separate dot further east.

Saran-Osh Republic of Mordovia Idel-Ural (confederation) · Mokshen Mastor 1.1k
Ural RepublicУральская Республика
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The Urals are made of Perm, Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk; Kurgan is kept with the Urals rather than Tyumen-Ugra. Orenburg has gone to Bashkortostan as a corridor to Kazakhstan.

Yekaterinburg Sverdlovsk Oblast, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Kurgan Oblast, Perm Krai Ural 489
Federation of ChernozemyeРеспублика Черноземье
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Chernozemye is the Voronezh, Lipetsk, Tambov, Kursk and Oryol regions; Belgorod has a republic of its own. Voronezh itself has a movement for a separate Voronezh Republic.

Voronezh Voronezh Oblast, Lipetsk Oblast, Tambov Oblast, Kursk Oblast, Oryol Oblast Voronezh Republic 331
Zalesye FederationФедерация Залесье
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The capital is Vladimir, not Moscow: a Moscow Republic appeared in the 2022 declarations, but here Moscow and its region belong to Zalesye. Nizhny Novgorod and Vyatka are here too. The remaining regions, Tula and Kaluga among them, were never settled — they are placed here by sense.

Vladimir Vladimir Oblast, Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Yaroslavl Oblast, Ivanovo Oblast, Kostroma Oblast, Ryazan Oblast, Tula Oblast, Kaluga Oblast, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Kirov Oblast Merya Revival 277
Republic of TverРеспублика Тверь Tver Tver Oblast Tver People's Republic 263
Pskov RepublicПсковская Республика Pskov Pskov Oblast Pskov Republic 184
Pomorie–BjarmiaПоморье — Бьярмия
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The Nenets district has gone to Komi. The Vologda region is not split here and stays with Pomorie whole — the city of Vologda included, not just Ustyug and Kotlas.

Arkhangelsk Arkhangelsk Oblast, Vologda Oblast Pomorie 126
Erzyan MastorЭрзянь Мастор
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An Erzya state with its capital in Arzamas: the Erzya lands of the southern Nizhny Novgorod region and eastern Mordovia. No separate border is drawn for them — the state is shown as a dot at its capital.

Erzyamas a point on the map — not separable in the grid of regions Erzyan Mastor 59
Volga FederationФедерация Поволжье
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The Volga federation is made of the Samara, Saratov, Ulyanovsk and Penza regions. Nizhny Novgorod and Vyatka go to Zalesye.

Samara Samara Oblast, Saratov Oblast, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Penza Oblast Volga Region 13
Nogai RepublicНогай Эл
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The nation follows its capital, Astrakhan: the Astrakhan region. The Nogai steppes of Stavropol and Dagestan fall outside these borders.

Astrakhan Astrakhan Oblast Nogai El 4
Oirat RepublicОйрат (Калмыкия)
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Oirat is drawn within Kalmykia’s borders. The Astrakhan delta is left here with Nogai El, whose capital is Astrakhan.

Elista Kalmykia Oirat-Kalmykia 4
Altai RepublicРеспублика Алтай Ulalu Altai Republic — 0
Baltic RepublicБалтийская Республика
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The Baltic Republic — Königsberg, East Prussia: a single region, the Kaliningrad region.

Königsberg Kaliningrad — 0
Federation Ugra-TyumenФедерация Тюмень-Югра
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Tyumen and Ugra are in the name itself. Yamal was never settled — it is placed here by sense, and the question stays open.

Tümen Tyumen Oblast, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Ugra, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug — 0
IristonИристон Vladikavkaz North Ossetia–Alania — 0
KolandiaКоландия Murmansk Murmansk Oblast — 0
KomiКоми
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The Nenets district is part of Komi — both Naryan-Mar and Novaya Zemlya lie inside it.

Syktyvkar Komi Republic, Nenets Autonomous Okrug — 0
Novgorod RepublicНовгородская Республика Novgorod Novgorod Oblast — 0
Republic of Kamchatka and ChukotkaРеспублика Камчатка и Чукотка Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Kamchatka Krai, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug — 0
Republic of KhakassiaХакасия Abakan Khakassia — 0
Republic of KumykКумыкия
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A Kumyk state on lowland Dagestan, apart from the rest of the region. No borders are drawn inside Dagestan here — the state is shown as a dot at its capital.

Temirxan-Şura a point on the map — not separable in the grid of regions — 0
Republic of TyvaТыва Kyzyl Tuva — 0

Voice of the movements

Where a movement sees its nation differently from what is drawn, the map passes its word on as is — on the nation’s card and here.

Voronezh RepublicFederation of Chernozemye
The movement is building a separate Voronezh Republic; on the map Voronezh is the capital of Chernozemye, with no separate state yet.
Idel-Ural (confederation)Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Chuvashia, Mari El, Udmurtia, Mokshen Mastor
The region's largest channels work for the «Free Idel-Ural» confederation. The map draws six separate states and marks them as a group; the confederation itself is not on the map.
Erzyan MastorErzyan Mastor
Part of the Erzya-Moksha movement (Kutsäi Kaltaeń) is building a single Republic of Erzya-Mokshania — the map splits it into Mokshen Mastor and Erzyan Mastor.
CircassiaRepublic of Circassia, Karachay-Balkaria
The Circassian movement is also at work in Kabarda (Gazeta Yuga at 10.9k and others), alongside the Alan-Turkic movement of Balkaria. The map does not cut Kabardino-Balkaria: it is shown inside Karachay-Balkaria whole.
Vepsia (Jumou)Karelia
A Veps revival movement (Jumou); the map has no Veps lands — Prionezhye is dissolved into Karelia and Zalesye.
SiberiaUnited States of Siberia
The Siberian Battalion (9.9k) and the S|B|S movement stand behind Siberia. There is no organisation named «United States of Siberia» in Telegram.
Zelenyi KlynPacific Federation
The Ukrainian movement regards Primorye and Priamurye as Zelenyi Klyn — Ukrainian land; on the map this is the Pacific Federation.

What grey means

Strength is counted from the public Telegram channels of movements known to the map. Grey means no living movement was found among them — not “no people” and not “no movement at all”.