Editing Tatarstan (section)

=== Political status ===
[[File:Губернаторский дворец (Казань).jpg|thumb|Presidential Palace]]

The Republic of Tatarstan is a constituent republic of the [[Russian Federation]]. Most of the Russian federal subjects are tied with the Russian federal government by the uniform Federal Treaty (The contract expired in 2017), but relations between the government of Tatarstan and the Russian federal government are more complex and are precisely defined in the [[Constitution]] of the Republic of Tatarstan. The following passage from the Constitution defines the republic's status without contradicting the Constitution of the Russian Federation:

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The Republic of Tatarstan is a democratic state governed by the rule of law within the Russian Federation. The statehood of the Republic of Tatarstan is expressed in its possession of the full extent of state power outside the purview of the Russian Federation and the powers of the Russian Federation on matters of joint jurisdiction of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tatarstan; in its possession of its own territory, population, system of state authorities, its own Constitution and legislation, state languages, and state symbols.<ref>{{cite web |title=Конституция Республики Татарстан |url=https://minjust.tatarstan.ru/konstitutsiya.htm?pub_id=1084014.htm |website=Министерство юстиции Республики Татарстан |language=ru}}</ref>
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