Khakassia

Khakassia, or Хакасия, is a republic in the south central part of the Russian Federation.

While Khakassia is real, it does not and never issued its own stamps; the stamps supposedly being issued by it are not real. Beginning in the early 1990s, old Soviet stamps were surcharged with ХАКАСИЯ or  or РЕСПУБЛИКА ХАКАСИЯ or HAKASIA. Various topical sheetlets followed, inscribed just ХАКАСИЯ. That may just be the tip of the iceberg.  File:Khakassia dinos.jpg|2 values bogus dinosaur surcharges. File:Kharkassia dog.jpg|From the (just one?) dogs sheetlet. 

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