Azerbaijani groups have practiced Islam in Georgia for centuries, as have Ajarians and some of the Abkhazians concentrated in their respective autonomous republics.

The students are also part of the Jugovizija, where they sing for their respective republic, a parody of the Eurovision Song Contest.

The coalition members feared the awakening of nationalism within their respective republics and the influence of the Ukrainian minority in Czechoslovakia on Ukrainians in the Soviet Union.

As anticipated, Civic Forum and Public Against Violence won landslide victories in their respective republics and gained a comfortable majority in the federal parliament.

Chechen and Ingush are official languages of their respective republics.

How these subgroups, once under a central army command, will now relate to the respective republic leaders is simply still not clear.

When the Soviet Union broke up, they remained part of those respective republics as they gained independence.

Other languages are also used in their respective republics, for instance Tatar (1%), Yakut (0.4%) etc.

He abolished their respective autonomous republics.

All are minorities in their respective autonomous republics.