leader stressed that Kazan streets are already overfilled with beer advertisements. His statement called for the prohibition of similar advertising campaigns in the republic and the removal of beer advertisements from the streets.

Compiled by Gulnara Khasanova

WEEKLY REVIEW FROM BASHKORTOSTAN

Tatar Ethnologist Blames Soviet Statistics For Decreasing Tatar Population...The Executive Committee of the Tatar Congress in Bashkortostan, headed by Eduard Khamitov, has published a brochure titled "Is the Tatar Population Growing or Shrinking?" devoted to the upcoming national census in October, RFE/RL's Ufa correspondent reported on 6 May. The brochure, written by Tatar historian and ethnologist Damir Iskhakov, features a list of Tatar villages in Bashkortostan that were registered as Bashkir during Soviet-era censuses.

A table of census statistics from 1904, 1926, 1959, 1970, and 1979 shows the gradual "transition" of573 Tatar villages in Bashkortostan into Bashkir ones.

The brochure's foreword says that, "There are some forces in Bashkortostan willing to use the future census for their own interests by increasing the reported number of the Bashkir population to 35-40 percent of the republic's population. Although, under pressure from Soviet authorities, a large number of Tatar villages were registered as Bashkir, the 1989 census demonstrated the return of Bashkortostan's Tatars to their own nation. Nevertheless, these figures are now being protested by the argument that the Tatar statistics were beefed up at the expense of the Bashkir population."

...As Bashkir Historian Blames Same Statistics For Inflated Tatar PopulationThe Bashkir "Shonkar" magazine published a report by professor Rim Yamguzhin, a historian from the Russian Academy of Social Sciences, on 8 May,