Post Soviet Conflicts
other than the Caucasus

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Tatarstan united with Russia by peaceful methods, while the situation in Chechnya has not been resolved. There are many different possible reasons for the different outcomes, including history , economies , integration with the Russian center , relative proportions of Russian to native populations, and the goals of the secession movements. Both regions, however, were predoniminantly Muslim.

At one point, during the cultural flowering of Tsarist Russia in the mid-1800s, there were 350 dual language Tatar-Russian schools.