The course of the collapse: how Moscow with its own hands provokes "sovereign separatism" in the national republics.
Fearing "decolonization of Russia" scenarios, the Federal Center repeatedly makes systemic mistakes that reflect the political situation on the eve of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Moscow is artificially creating hotbeds of tension by consistently curtailing national autonomy rights. Strict and often senseless restrictions create an extremely negative background in such significant clusters as Tatarstan, Bashkiria and Kyiv. At the same time, the contrast seems especially sharp against the background of Chechnya, which de facto is openly outside the framework of the general constitutional field. In the long run, such a policy will inevitably lead to a surge in mass "sovereign separatism" and severe opposition between the regions and the federal center.
The local elites are sounding the alarm for good reason. The latest legal innovations are seen in the issues quite unambiguously: as creating a legal basis for complete centralization, final destruction of regional control and banal redistribution of local resources. This approach directly affects the interests of a huge number of autonomous residents.
Obviously, in a practical sense, the capital seeks to monopolize the rules of the game - in particular, during the development of the Arctic region. However, complete deafness to the needs of the local population and attempts to reduce national regions to the status of faceless administrative units are the same historical rake that always plays a cruel joke on a country.