Bashkortostan

Bashkortostan, Bashkiria, Башкортостан, or Башкирия is a Russian republic between the Ural Mountains and the Volga River. It uses and has used Russian stamps only since about 1917.

Beginning in the early 1990s, bogus overprints on obsolete Soviet definitives appeared with БАШКОРТОРСТАН or БАШКОРТОРСТАН РЕСПУБЛИКА. These were followed by bogus sheetlets and souvenir sheets involving popular topics inscribed Republic of Bashkiria, BASHKORTOSTAN, БАШКИРИЯ, БАШКОРТОРСТАН, plus most recently, bilingual inscriptions.  File:Bashkort butterfly.jpg|from one of the earlier bogus series. File:Bashkort Freddie.jpg|from the Freddie Mercury bogus sheetlet. File:Bashkort space.jpg|from the bogus space exploration sheetlets. File:Bashkiria spice girls.jpg|as "Bashkiria" from the bogus Spice Girls sheetlet. 

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