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| | Johnson's Russia List #5425 - September 4, 2001 |
 | | In 1991-99 a group of Russian and Finnish scholars studied the evolution of religious belief among Russians on the basis of a series of all-Russian surveys (in 1991, 1993, 1996, and 1999). |
 | | In the final treaty text the number of areas in which Tatarstan has the right to legislate is reduced from 18 to 4 (family, residential, environmental, and administrative law). |
 | | In short, "Tatarstan model" aspired to by Tatarstan leaders and intellectuals is a confederal one, while the "Tatarstan model" embodied in the treaty and agreements stays well within the bounds of asymmetric federalism, with a few symbolic face-saving gestures in the direction of sovereignty (but not including use of the word itself). |
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