The problem of Ural separatism in the early 1990s
The relevance of this article is related to the need to counter separatist tendencies in Russia. The purpose of the article is to identify the reasons for attempts to create the Ural Republic in the early 1990s. The research objectives are as follows: determining the causes of centrifugal trends in the country in the early 1990s, identifying differences between Ural separatism and separatism in the «ethnic» regions of Russia. It is indicated that there is no desire to create a new nation in the Urals.