| Abstract: | The question of where the capital is to be situated has not yet been resolved. The towns of] Kaluga, Kaliningrad, and Podol'sk have been suggested, however. Moscow is considered the least felicitous alternative. Still, there is more than enough time to deal with this question, since the republic does not exist yet. But the foundation for its establishment has already been laid. On May 26, at a meeting of the Small Soviet executive committee] of the Moscow Oblast Soviet, Lev Kozlovich, chairman of the standing committee on housing, utilities, and roads, urban planning, transport, and communications, raised for discussion the question of "the expedience of creating a Republic of Muscovy" within the territory of Moscow Oblast. As stated, the proposal was motivated by the desire to abolish a glaring injustice—the inequality of rights among the subjects of the federation, Russia's autonomous republics and regions. |
