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I really love fictional countries (and defunct ones but mostly fictional ones) and I have a thing for trying really hard to fit them into history when they take place in the real world such as this one does. So, my point, I guess.

The Tsardom of Tyrnovo (Tarnovo is also used) is located in south-eastern Siberia in a nondescript area of some considerable size (at the moment), it possesses borders with modern Russia, Mongolia and the PRC, it is however land-locked. On to my I guess question, Tyrnovo has been around since 1742, it has never been part of Greater Russia (the Tsardom, the Empire, the Soviet Union, the Federation), though it is Russianesque itself. I was wondering if anyone had suggestions/questions as to how Tarnovo might be allowed to continue to exist without Russia annexing it. This nation-idea is very much a work in progress and I don't have a world thought out for it yet necessarily and I apologise for that.

I also apologise for this being my first post and it being so shabby.
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