# [2021.03.21] Turkestan Russe

Today I got a French tax-payer identifier. Also, I realised that the
officials incorrectly transferred my country of birth from my
application form to their database. And yes, I never knew that
according to French Institut national de la statistique et des études
économiques until 1994, there was a dedicated code for Russian
Turkestan. Well, there never was an independent country with such a
name in the first place. And, of course, I never visited that region,
not to mention being born there.