Free Idel-Ural
Free Idel-Ural (Russian: Свободный Идель-Урал; Tatar: Азат Идел-Урал; Erzya: Олячив Рав-Уралонь) is a marginal civil movement of the people of the Russian region of Idel-Ural that aims for independence for the republics of Mordovia, Chuvashia, Mari El, Tatarstan, Udmurtia and Bashkortostan and the integration of these six republics into a political union with a common external border, economic space and collective safety system. == History == Rafis Kashapov, one of the leaders of the Tatar national movement, was convicted for his criticism of the Russian annexation of Crimea in September 2015 and sentenced to three years in a penal colony.