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Classical ethnic federation model and atypical ethnofederations

The article is devoted to the study of twelve federations, that Russian and foreign scholars commonly classify as ethnic federations – Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, India, Spain, Canada, Malaysia, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Switzerland, Ethiopia. The main research task was to identify the essential features of the classical ethnic federation model and, on this basis, to distinguish it from the so-called atypical ethnofederations. The first part of the article critically examines the definition of an ethnic federation, which has become widespread in Russian and international political…