- Map
- Background Information
- Fact File
1. MAP OF KSORDIA-AKHTARIA AT THE TIME OF RUSLAN’S SECOND PEACE MISSION
2. BACKGROUND INFORMATION (A LONG NIGHT OF CHAOS)
The Ksords and Akhtarians are closely-related peoples who share a language and a culture. They were ruled by the Crimean Tatars from 1239 to 1783, when Russia conquered the region. There is a large Tatar population in Central Kubania. After the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War, Ksordia-Akhtaria became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union.
In 1942, the Nazis invaded Ksordia-Akhtaria, bringing with them the Rebels, a group of Akhtarian fascist exiles, who launched a campaign of genocide against the Ksords in southern Akhtaria and Central Kubania. Stalin responded with the ‘Great Repression’: wholesale massacres of Akhtarians followed by the deportation of the entire Akhtarian nation to Soviet Central Asia. It wasn’t until 1957 that Khrushchev rehabilitated the Akhtarians and allowed them to return to their homeland.
The Rebel genocide and the Great Repression left a terrible legacy of bitterness.
When the Soviet Union collapsed at the end of 1991, Ksordia-Akhtaria became independent as a federal republic. Akhtaria was dominated by nationalists and Ksordia was increasingly dominated by Shakman Korgay, a former Communist who had reinvented himself as a hard-line nationalist.
In February 1992, Akhtaria unilaterally declared itself independent. The Federal Government sent troops to seize Akhtaria’s northern border with Russia in an effort to force the Akhtarians to the negotiating table. The Akhtarians attacked these federal troops.
3. FACT FILE
Ksord-Akhtarian Federal Republic
Capital: Khosume.
Population* 7,837,349 (57% Ksords, 23% Akhtarians, 12% Tatars, 7% other)
There are four autonomous regions, whose governments undermine the Federal Government at every opportunity.
Akhtaria (controlled by Akhtarian nationalists)
Capital: Zeda’Anta.
Population 2,054,522 (22% Ksords, 65% Akhtarians, 2% Tatars, 11% other)
Central Kubania (controlled by an unstable coalition of Tatar, Ksordian and Akhtarian nationalists)
Capital: Khosume.
Population 1,895,266 (34% Ksords, 18% Akhtarians, 39% Tatars, 9% other)
East Ksordia (controlled by Shakman Korgay)
Capital: Ronkoni.
Population 3,147,034 (87% Ksords, 5% Akhtarians, 4% Tatars, 4% other)
West Ksordia (controlled by an ally of Shakman Korgay)
Capital: Ushanore.
Population 742,027 (88% Ksords, 1% Akhtarians, 3% Tatars, 8% other)
* All population figures are taken from the 1989 census.
Paul Clark 