Vladislav Chokin

Vladislav Chokin
Владислав Чокин (Russian) Florin Fozmant ( Farin Fazmandeⱨ / فارین فاظمانضیه )
1st Rine of Tenurria
Incumbent
Assumed office 2020
Preceded by	Office established
Personal details
Born	25 February 2001 (2001-02-25) Odessa, Ukraine
Citizenship	Ukraine Micronations: Tenurria Ladonia
Residences	Brno, Czechia

Vladislav Maximovich Chokin (Russian: Владислав Максимович Чокин), also less known by his Estuarian (Florin Fozmant) name along with its derivative, "Florin Fox" nickname — is a Czechoslovak-oriented micronational enthusiast of Ukrainian origin. Vladislav used to be a leader of several virtual micronational projects that have been abandoned. At this moment he holds the leadership and slow foundation of the virtual state of Tenurria.

Biography

Vladislav was born on 25 February 2001 in Odessa, Ukraine.

His schooling took place in 4 different schools with the last one offering a long-distance education for last years before the national Ukrainian graduation exam in 2019. In the same year Chokin started to work at a local food delivery service as a call center operator and held this occupation until the May 2020 when he had been suspended from his duties due to the personal low efficiency and general corporate downsizing caused by COVID-19 quarantine crisis.

The unstable political, social, ethnic and mainly economical situation in Ukraine has urged him to find ways to immigrate to the European Union country, foremost to the Czech Republic he always felt a big sympathy to. After a few attempts to get Romanian and Moldovan citizenship by ancestry, he decided to visit Czechia by gaining a short-term employment visa for an unskilled position. Before leaving the Czech Republic according to his permitted terms, Vladislav has managed to gather more information about the job offers for foreigners. After almost a year of awaiting back in Ukraine, in Spring of 2021 he has got a job contract with a car seating factory in Plzeň and a long-term working visa.

Vladislav has left Ukraine on August 2020 and after changing of the initial workplace soon after arrival, he had been residing and working in Šlapanice town in the South Moravian region up to the April 2023. On latter, he moved to Brno together with his lover who he registered a partnership with at the end of November 2023. By the end of 2024, together with his partner, Chokin still resides in Brno on the rights of a EU citizen's family member and is employed as a warehouseman and forklift driver.

Micronational activity

The Keleic Micronation

Vladislav became a micronationalist on 1 October 2016 after foundation of his first micronation which he named after his own name, Verd'landian Republic of Vladislavia. His main motivation was a wish to end his personal psychological conflict about a nation and country to belong to which was caused two years earlier after the "Euromaidan" protesters performed a coup d’etat in Ukraine and have changed its national ideology by which the Russian-speaking part of country (including Chokin) had been slightly oppressed and marginalized. Refusing to be either Ukrainian, Russian or Romanian by ancestry, Vladislav declared himself the only Verd'landian in real life, a part of the nation from his own fictional universe developing and growing since his childhood. Yet the wide plans for the new micronation weren't succeeded. Moreover, trying to promote a new project in the community of Russian micronationalists Vladislav has been highly criticized and desecrated for his opinion about the Rusophonic community, liberal political beliefs and being a part of furry fandom. Finally, the low-efficient legal system of the first micronation had been extremely complicated which soon caused its stagnation and forced Vladislav to abandon the project with the creation of actual, real Verd'land as a micronation, which, though, met the same fate of abandonment.

In 2020 despite still considering himself Verd'landian, Vladislav has lost control over his ethnicity and its features, especially after the loss of the Verd'landian dictionary caused by a damaged CSV table file containing it. Still having an interest towards micronations, he decided to create a micronational project that will not be directly connected with abandoned Verd'land but would still save a feature of ethnic group simulation. For that purpose, Vladislav created Estuaria, This micronation is also being his first completely monarchist micronation — Chokin would hold a position of so-called Rine.

Between years 2020 and 2023 he nearly stopped further development and instead has focused on long-needed reformation of his fictional world. By the beginning of 2023, its lore, language, culture and elements have been revised and edited. The former Verd'land became the "Krönslandet" and along with fictional Estuaria is now considered only one of the 6 "legacy lands" of so-called "Keletīr", "The Keleic Land", divided by at least 3 ethnic groups, 3 races and 4 languages. To be a real-life entity covering and presenting them all, the older project of "Estuaria" is reformed and presented as "7th land", the Tenurria.

United States of Akkerman

Unlike Verd'landian micronations which were supposed to have a high level of seriousness and simulate a real country as much as it is possible, Vladislav's second micronation has been created for sole humorous purpose mixed with emphasizing of regional patriotism and local lore learning. He declared his grandparents' house and yard in Belgorod-Dnestrovskiy town as a capital of an independent nation called the United States of Akkerman covering the town itself and 7 adjoining villages nearby. This project was automatically abandoned after Vladislav's emigration.

Personal life

Beliefs

Chokin does not align himself to a certain political ideology and calls himself a centrist, noting that the ideologies are mostly created for domination over humans' minds and distraction from the real problems that appear in society, and that only a personal and unique approach to these problems or questions can lead to a peaceful and fair result. Vladislav opposes the radical far-right movements and overly conservative governments (like Hungary under Fidesz government) just as well as progressive left ideology and wokeism.

Vladislav is following the cosmopolitan beliefs and considers that each person on Earth should not be bound to their birthplace and has the right to live anywhere in the world granted that this person's personal mindset is flexible and isn't bound to certain cultural customs (which would make the naturalization impossible). According to this idea, he declares the Czech Republic as his new motherland to replace Ukraine, which, by his own words, "has died in 2014 and only exists in a form of a rotting corpse". After the beginning of the Russian invasion into Ukraine Vladislav holds a reserved and criticizing position towards the all sides of the military conflict, noting that both Russian and NATO-backed Ukrainian governments are functioning and making decisions against the will and interests of the Ukrainian and Russian people and are following the personal business and strategical interests by prolonging the war from both sides. Vladislav's sympathy to Ukrainian side of the conflict has been acutely lowered after the Ukrainian passports' issuing ban incident that has nearly touched him and his family personally.

Vladislav believes in a complex of esoteric beliefs focalized on a certain explanation of karma, reincarnations, and souls' mission. At the same time, he assumes the existence of gods, deities, and spirits in a form of social or ethereal egregore. With such a position, he follows the "Raevism", a religious ideology that declares "Five Foxes" as the patrons.

Interests

Vladislav's primary hobbies are travelling, furry fandom and alternative fashion. He is boastful of visiting of 10 countries and over 50 towns and cities, and attending 2 local furry conventions by the end of 2024. Besides that he is interested in various minor topics like modern history, national symbols, rail and public transport and urbanistics, as well as national borders in a form of mild obsession. Chokin hopes and expects to become a tram driver in cities like Brno or Ostrava in the relatively near future. As his main travelling wish, he states a long road trip around Balkan countries including Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Albania.