Popular unrest has not lead to more accountability, but, it seems, less thus far in Russia. Even as that state comes under more and more economic pressure, it is getting ever more heavy handed.
The Russian Constitutional Court's directive this week to 11 of its "ethnic republics" ordered them to eliminate all references in their constitutions to "sovereignty".
For a short piece from the poitn of view of a Tartar former official, see here.
For a more general article about the Constitutional Court decision, see here.
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