The Russian Federation consists of 83 subjects, 21 of which are republics. The republics are occupied 28,6% of Russian territory, and the population of the republics is 16.9% .
Republic, in contrast to the regions and districts are nation-States formation, that is a form of state of a nation (people) as part of (numbering in) Russia. Unlike the other subjects of the Federation, the Republics adopt their own constitution and have the right to establish their own state languages.
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics dissolved for good on December 25, 1991, breaking into its constituent republics: the European republics of Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova; the trans-Caucasus republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia; the trans-Uralic republics of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan; the Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia; and the huge multi-ethnic, trans-continental republic of the Russian Federation. These nations still exist, recognizing the same borders that divided them as SSRs, although there are political tensions within and between these nations that may cause future changes in the geography of the area, for example in Chechnya (within the Russian Federation), between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh, and between Georgia and the Russian Federation in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
The Caucasus & Central Asian republics
This requires a fairly long explanation. But, here are the highlights: After Boris Yeltsin allowed the collapse of the Soviet Union the Soviet Republics declared their independence. But, Chechnya was not considered a Soviet Republic. Rather it was a part of the Russian Federation of republics. But, they hated Russia and declared their independence too. Yeltsin feared the secession of Chechnya would prompt a me-too of independence movements within the vast Russian Federation. In addition he hoped to recover Chechnya's valuable oil resources.
Borris Yeltsin was elected by popular vote to the position of President of the Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in June 1991. He won 57% of the vote against with 6 other candidates. When the USSR was dissolved in December, Yeltsin remained in office, becoming the first president of the Russian Federation. He was reelected in 1996.
It is a republic within the Russian Federation. It is not, however, an independent nation - it is still part of Russia.
No. Chechnya is the region within Russian Federation and Czech republic in the Central Europe.
This point is within a few miles of the city center of Novosibirsk in the Russian Federation.
Chechnya was a part of the Soviet Union as an autonomous region within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Chechnya declared independence and went through two devastating wars with Russia before being reintegrated as a subject of the Russian Federation.
In 1991 communists staged a coup (overthrow) against president Gorbachev and his reforms. The newly elected president of the Russian Republic, Boris Yeltsin, occupied the White House in Moscow, and opposed the coup. Moscow citizens rallied behind Yeltsin and within three days the coup collapsed. At the end of 1991, the Soviet Union fell apart and the Russian Federation, led by Yeltsin, was born.
Georgia within the Russian Empire ended in 1918.
Georgia within the Russian Empire was created in 1801.