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Basemap: Natural Earth 4.1.0 land polygons (world-atlas@2.0.2), Public domain (Natural Earth terms of use). Land polygons only. No political boundaries are drawn by the basemap. Case boundaries appear only from approved, sourced geometry records, each labelled with its layer type, dates and provenance. Map policy.

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21 cases matching Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas. The map shows the same set.

Cases shown on the atlas, with collection, region and locator description
Case	Collection	Region	Locator
Abkhazia	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	Abkhazia
Bashkortostan	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	Bashkortostan
Buryatia	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	Buryatia
Chechen independence / Ichkeria	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	Chechnya
Circassian self-determination	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	Circassian-titled republics (Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia)
Crimea	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	Crimea
Dagestani political-status movements	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	Republic of Dagestan
Donetsk and Luhansk	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	Donetsk and Luhansk regions
Ingria	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	Ingria (Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast area)
Ingush self-determination	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	Republic of Ingushetia
Kalmykia	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	Kalmykia
Karelia	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	Karelia
Komi	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	Komi Republic
Lezgin self-determination	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	Lezgin-populated territory (Dagestan-Azerbaijan border)
Nagorno-Karabakh / Artsakh	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	Nagorno-Karabakh
Sakha (Yakutia)	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	Sakha (Yakutia)
South Ossetia	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	South Ossetia (Tskhinvali region)
Talysh self-determination	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	Talysh region (Lankaran, Azerbaijan)
Tatarstan	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	Tatarstan
Transnistria	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	Transnistria
Tuva	Independence movements	Caucasus, Russia and neighbouring areas	Tuva