Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Crimea has obtained the status of an autonomous republic with its own government instead of a regional state administration.

It was raised to the status of a full republic in 1936.

The Americans are pressing for Kosovo to be given the status of a republic within Yugoslavia, like Montenegro.

For them, the idea of "reducing" Russia to the status of an ordinary republic or of denying an essentially Russian character to the Soviet empire is anathema.

After dissolution of the USSR, Kalmykia kept the status of an autonomous republic within the newly formed Russian Federation (effective March 31, 1992).

On July 3, 1991, the oblast was elevated to the status of a republic under the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation.

It also promoted the Vardar region of southern Serbia to the status of a separate republic, the People's Republic of Macedonia.

After the Sovietization of Georgia in 1921, Adjara was granted the status of an autonomous republic and Batumi became its capital.

The Donetsk regional council is to hold a referendum on 5 December on giving the region the status of a republic within Ukraine.

Albanian nationalist demonstrations in Kosovo, demanding status of a republic and more rights (the slogan "Kosovo republika").