Dated events associated with this case. Each event is a shared record: the same event appears identically wherever it is relevant.
· Declaration
Kalmykia declared sovereignty while explicitly ruling out secession from Russia.
Significance here: The founding act of Kalmykia's post-Soviet constitutional status, notable for its explicit rejection of secession from the outset.
· Constitutional change
Under President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Kalmykia adopted a new basic law and voluntarily dispensed with the separate constitutional trappings other Russian republics retained.
Significance here: A distinctive case of a Russian republic's leadership voluntarily relinquishing sovereignty symbols that other republics retained until forced changes decades later.
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