RUSSIAN FEDERAL CENTER AND REPUBLIC TATARSTAN: SOME ASPECTS OF RELATIONS

The article deals with some problems that have arisen in the relationship between the Federal center and the Republic of Tatarstan, their background. They relate to the national statehood of the Tatars, the situation with the Tatar language and national education. This is the problem associated with the denial of the sovereignty of the Republic, which means the emasculation of national statehood, as a state without sovereignty does not happen. Other problems in the relationship between the Russian center and the Republic of Tatarstan are disagreements over the conclusion of a separate agreement between the authorities of both levels and the preservation of the name "President" in the designation of the head of the Republic. Especially strongly affects the national consciousness and even the fate of the Tatar nation, the state of the Tatar language and its study in the education system: the Russian authorities have banned the translation of the Tatar language graphics from Cyrillic to Latin, the exclusion of the national-regional component from the Federal educational standard, the excessive centralization of educational policy, the lack of a Federal standard for the study of the state languages of the republics. The political elite of Tatarstan is not able to resist the pressure from the Federal center and is forced to surrender one position after another, showing external loyalty.