Tatarstan

Tatarstan is a state with in the Russian Federation. It was one of many post soviet states to emerge after the dessolution of the USSR, having declared it's soviergnty on August 30, 1990 with the Declaration on the State Soviergnty of the Tatar Soviet Socialist Republic, with a new consitution being agreeded upon by referenda in 1992. Some issues over what liberties a member of the Federation holds have emerged in the state, with the 1992 consitution being overturned by the Russian Consitutional Court. It was not till 2002 that that the state officially identified it's self as subordant to the Russian state; having till that point considered it's self part of a loose union, maintaining soviergnty, rather then a unit of the Federation. It's current president is Rustam Minnikhanov and it's capital is Kazan, and the state is governed as a Unitary Republic.