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What happens after Ukraine defeats the Russian invaders? (Part Three)

Many regions of Russia, including the ethnic groups within them are not paying the taxes owed to central authorities because they need to pay nurses, doctors, teachers, police and other civic employees. Many regions are already going their own way.

(Part two can be found here.)

Referendums on declaring independence from the Kremlin have already been held in many places across Russia and discussions have already been held by Free Nations of Post-Russia and this includes ten Russian and two Siberian regions out of the 41 Free Nations defined (see Table 1).

The delegates of these 41 regions formed the Free Nations of Post-Russia group, holding their first meeting on May 8th and 9th one year ago in Warsaw. The sixth meeting, hosted by the Hudson Institute was held over four days from April 25th to 28th in Philadelphia, Washington and New York. In addition, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) also hosted two meetings with many of the same delegates on June 23rd and Sept 28th of 2022. The same experts attended all three sets of meetings with the terms Post-Russia Decolonization and Reconstruction gaining momentum. The next two meetings have already been set: July 13th-16th in Japan and Sept 14th-17th in London.

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