Imperial Throne (micronation)
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Imperial Throne Императорский Престол |
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| Status | Current | ||||
| Official languages | Russian | ||||
| Religion | Official Eastern Orthodox |
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| Organizational structure | Constitutional monarchy | ||||
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• Emperor
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Nicholas IIIa | ||||
| Anton Bakov | |||||
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• Declared
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2011 | ||||
| Membership | ~4,000b | ||||
| Purported currency | Ruble | ||||
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Website
russianempire.org |
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The Imperial Throne (Russian: Императорский Престол), formerly the Russian Empire (Российская Империя), is a micronation created in 2011 by Russian businessman and politician Anton Bakov, chairman of the Monarchist Party of the Russian Federation.
Shortly after creation, many efforts were made to convert it from a micronation to a sovereign state. In 2014, the Imperial Throne proclaimed that Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen, one of several claimants to the imperial Romanov line, was now Nicholas III, heir of the Emperors of All Russia and the head of this nation.
By 2017, talks with heads of several countries were held to purchase a territory to establish a "non-micro" state: these include Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Gambia, Antigua and Barbuda and Kiribati. In early 2017 it was reported that Bakov was interested in acquiring 3 islands belonging to Kiribati in order to establish a "revived Romanov Empire". On 24 February 2017, the Kiribati government rejected Bakov's proposal over the islands. Bakov later claimed it wasn't the final decision and that it was related to an inner Kiribati political struggle.
In September 2011, Russian newspaper Izvestia told that Bakov had purchased the Suwarrow atoll on 20 July 2011 for "millions of dollars" from the prime minister of the Cook Islands, on which he planned resurrect the Russian Empire. Cook Islands Prime Minister Henry Puna stated that Bakov's claim was completely false.
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