What If Russia Broke Up?

Are there any other countries you think could break up in a near future? Important note: At 7:40 and 8:10 I accidentally mentioned the percentages of the 1926 census instead of the 2010 ones. My mistake - I'm sorry! I'll be more attentive next time so that I don't make this type of mistakes.

You made a mistake regarding Karelia, only 7,4% are ethnic Karelians. You used the figure from 1926 rather than the census of 2010. Seems unlikely that such a small minority could force separation

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Fascinating; I knew of some of these cultures,, but had no idea it was so complex and diverse. Thanks for posting! New sub here!

An interesting detail about Dagestan - it is a multinational region itself. Just google Dagestan ethnicities map. There are more than 10 nationalities living there, besides the ethnic Russians, who are a minority there. These nationalities also have some tensions between them for centuries. Chechnya and Ingushetia even had an armed territorial dispute between them, even though they belong to the same Vainakh people. Trust me guys, when it comes down to multiculturalism, Russia is a true rabbit hole. But somehow all these peoples manage to get along with each other. Historically infrastructure and economy is so tightly tied together, that breaking up these chains would be extremely painful for all sides involved. Russia is like a living symbiotic organism, where all sides need each other to survive. Like an ecosystem in the forest. All those fantasies about some region going independent will be crushed under the harsh reality of economy and logistics.

0:31 It was a federation in Soviet times too, the Russian socialist FEDERATIVE soviet republic, RSFSR. It didn’t have to reinvent itself at all.

Thanks for spending the time to create and share this content

Thank you for creating such an interesting, informative video. I enjoyed a lot.

8:10 you're looking on population of 1926 instead of 2010. Same with Karelia.

I think after napoleon and German unification broke the idea of city-states. Not entirely but in a modern world its extremely hard to survive if trying to be diplomatic to outside powers or economic conditions. You'd either need to be on the coastline like Venice or survive for so long it's impossible to imagine a world without them like Vatican was or the city of London is today

Thanks so much for providing this informative video :)

Wow, what a time to release this video. While still quite improbable, certain other improbable developments which influence the odds a put this question on some minds sure unfolded quickly right after this was published.

If a break up in Russia happens, Chechnya would most likely be the first to go. They fought 2 independence wars against Russia previously. They won the first war but in the peace agreements for it all discussions about Chechen Independence or autonomy where put on hold, and in exchange Russia withdrew troops from Chechnya. However they lost the second war, and Russia with the aid of Akhmat Kadyrov’s forces crushed the Chechen independence forces. Update: In the Summer of 2022, Ukraine became the First UN Member State to recognize Chechen Independence.

Thank you for the great video! A little correction if I may: Turkic is pronounced “Tur-kick”, not “Tur-kich”, and Daghestan’s “gh” is a hard g as in garden.

Very well prepared presentation... thank you

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The Asian part of Russia is huge but virtually empty, except for a thin strech of land in the south along the borders with Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China. It could literally house the entire human population on Earth and not be overpopulated.

I don't want to see Russia broken up. I want to see it start to make the most of its peoples' potential and to stay the hell inside its own more than ample borders.

Я если честно, почему-то хочу заметить такой момент. Если сравнивать горожанина из Новосибирска и из Москвы, можно заметить, насколько более религиозным является Москвич. Есть несколько регионов, где нерелигиозных людей больше половины. Например вышеупомянутый Новосибирск имеет 25% атеистов, и 35% деистов, и всего-лишь 25% православных. Есть даже мнение такое, что большинство православных России - православные атеисты, что-то вроде культурного патриотизма.

The problem with this video is that the ratio of indigenous peoples and visitors is taken a hundred years ago, I have a national region at my side, with a second state national language, with benefits and quotas for the indigenous population. What do you think how many of this indigenous population? Less than 10%. Will they revolt and secede? Firstly, there are few of them, and secondly, they will lose all benefits. This will never happen.