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The disintegration of the Soviet empire and the formation of the CIS have not defused tensions in the vast region of what was known, until recently, as the USSR. Not only are fellow members of the CIS suspicious about Russia, the giant among pygmies in the CIS, but ethnic minorities (with the potential to emerge as nations) within Russia continue to feel insecure about their coexistence within Russia.
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By the 1980s it comprised in Kazakhstan about 41 per cent, in Kirghiztan about 26 per cent, in Turkmenistan about 13 per cent, and in each of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan about 11 per cent of total population. The Nationalities Question in the Soviet Union, ed. by G. Smith (London and New York: Longman 1990) Appendix 2, Table 3.
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Konarovsky, M. (1994). Russia and the Muslim States of Central Asia and Afghanistan. In: Mutalib, H., Hashmi, T.uI. (eds) Islam, Muslims and the Modern State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14208-8_11
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