#declaration
- Statement — A statement, declaration, or proposition by which it is asserted with certainty that a fact is true, real, or existing; formal assertion. In formal logic, an affirmation represents the conscious attribution of a predicate to a subject, systematically evaluated by truth values.
- Alma-Ata — The historical and official Russian name used between 1921 and 1993 for the largest city in Kazakhstan, currently known by its native name Almaty. Located in the southeastern part of the country at the foothills of the Trans-Ili Alatau mountains, the city served as the capital of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and subsequently of independent Kazakhstan until 1997, remaining the nation's primary economic, cultural, and academic hub, also famous for the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration that formalized the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
- Self-declaration — The act of self-declaring and its result; an official statement made on one's own responsibility through which a person assumes a certain identity, quality, nationality, religious denomination, or financial status before public authorities, without the need for additional proof issued by third parties. This structural act constitutes the demographic pillar in conducting modern censuses.
- To self-proclaim — To publicly and unilaterally declare or proclaim oneself in a certain high office, dignity, quality, or legal status (such as president, king, or independent state), without prior legal confirmation, a democratic vote, or official recognition from legitimate authorities or the international community. In political analysis, this structural act reflects a forced attempt to legislate and impose sovereignty or state power through one's own will.
- Self-proclamation — The act of self-proclaiming and its result; a unilateral political or legal act through which an individual or community assigns themselves an official status, sovereign title, or state independence without the prior consent of a higher authority or the electorate. From a constitutional perspective, this structural process is considered illegitimate or revolutionary, frequently generating major diplomatic or geopolitical conflicts until a possible de facto recognition is achieved.
- Self-proclaimed — Having declared or proclaimed oneself into a certain office, dignity, quality, or legal status without holding legal confirmation, a legitimate title, a democratic vote, or official recognition from a higher authority or the international community. In historical and political analysis, the term describes leaders, regimes, or state entities whose structural authority derives exclusively from a unilateral act of their own will, often being contested or deemed illegal.