Politics of Greenland cities and villages. Along with diplomatic missions to the European Union and the United States, Greenland participates in the Nordic Council, Arctic Council, International Whaling Commission (Complete list of participation of Greenland in international organisations). With Denmark having responsibility for Greenland's international affairs, other countries do not have direct diplomatic representation in Greenland — their embassies or consulates in Copenhagen are responsible for their relations with Greenland and their citizens staying or living there. Greenland is represented internationally by the embassies and consulates of Denmark, although Greenland has an independent Representation to the European Union in Brussels since 1992 and
Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic The Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (; , "Bashkirskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika"); also known as Soviet Bashkiria or simply Bashkiria was an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic within the Russian SFSR. Currently it is known as Bashkortostan. Bashkir ASSR was the first Autonomous Soviet Republic in RSFSR. The republic occupied an area of in the far south-eastern corner of European Russia, bounded on the east by the Ural Mountains and within seventy kilometers of the Kazakhstan border at its southernmost point. The region was settled by nomads of the steppe, the Turkic Bashkirs, during the