Bashkortostan

Bashkortostan (Bashkir: Başqortostan/Башҡортостан), formally known as the Republic of Bashkortostan (Bashkir: Başqortostan Respublikahı/Башҡортостан Республикаһы) is a republic situated on the Ural Mountains and the Volga River. Bashkortostan is great allies with Tatarstan and Chuvashia.

Independence from Russia
Like Tatarstan, the Bashkir, a unique Turkic ethnic group native to Bashkortostan, began protesting for independence from Russia. The protesters complained about ethnic Russians being the majority. These protests eventually resulted to violence and ethnic cleansing of Russians by the Bashkir. With the amount of violence in the region, Russia was eventually forced to give Bashkortostan independence.

Languages
The official language of Bashkortostan is Bashkir, written in the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. Russian is commonly spoken, but however, the usage of the language is declining due to language laws set in the new republic. Anyone who speaks Russian is usually fined 340 Bashkortostani aqsa (roughly $50) or publicly harassed. This leads to ethnic Russians not being able to speak their own language.

Tatar, Chuvash, Udmurt, Mordovian, and Mari are the recognized minority languages.

Ethnic groups
Ethnic Bashkirs take the majority, at 76%. However, there is a signifcant minority of Tatars, Russians, Udmurts, Mordovians, Mari, and Ukrainians.

Population
According to the 2021 Census, the population is 4,070,000.