According to open source researchers, soldiers with roots in poorer regions such as Buryatia and Dagestan are disproportionately represented among Russian casualties in Ukraine.
“Most of the soldiers and officers of the ground forces and the airborne forces come from poor Russian towns and villages,” military specialist Pavel Luzin told Al Jazeera.
“This social-economic stratification has a long-term tradition in the Russian armed forces because young men from the cities with relatively good education serve in other military branches … but the infantry consists of badly-educated soldiers from poor families and regions.”
Buryatia, in Siberia, was once a part of Mongolia that was conquered by Cossacks in the 17th century.
“We can’t determine our own politics – if we had a real federation, the head of our republic could say no, Buryats won’t fight in this criminal war. But he keeps providing cannon fodder for Putin,” Victoria Maladaeva, of the Free Buryatia Foundation, told Al Jazeera.
“Buryatia, like the other ethnic republics, is governed by the colonial policies of Moscow,” Maladaeva continued.
“Our languages and history are disappearing off the face of the Earth, while Moscow sucks all the money and resources out of the provinces. Moscow is a beautiful city but it’s such a facade of all of Russia, because if you go just a little further, the houses are falling apart, there are no roads, there’s no work.”
Hey guys, I’m making my MC’s love interest and he’s the prince of a kingdom based on like 15th century Russia…but he’s half Slavic Russian coded and half Native Siberian coded (I was gonna go with Buryat but I’m open to changing the group). Should I just change his race altogether, cuz I saw this one post saying that making this particular admixture was disrespectful and I didn’t want to disrespect anyone.
cannibalism and the kin, a small research (carried over from my twitter thread)
more below the break
so, on twitter, someone mentioned artemy being a cannibal in canon (via drinking tinctures), so i looked into it a little. outright cannibalism isn’t explicitly practiced by anybody in the game (at least 2), though it’s mentioned in a nightmare that artemy has.
so, it’s pretty obvious that eating others is equal to something like betrayal and shown in a bad light. in this reddit post,
op makes a good point about how the kin would despise cannibalism due to it’s breaking of the cutting bodies rule. its noted that townspeople with closed minds do accuse the kin of cannibalism out of blatant xenophobia, though such an act would be considered unethical by the kin themselves not only in the context of the game, but also in real buryat culture.
black shamans were disliked due to bringing about diseases which is a central theme of the game. these shamans and their patron zayans were feared.
however, i found something interesting. this article mentions a cannibalistic spirit called mu-shubun, also present in the game in the form of executors. i think this was pretty neat considering the practice of khun-dolyo rites involving sick persons.
there’s a possibility that the kin could have accused artemy of being a black shaman during the time which he was tangled up in the mystery of his father’s death. i wish to look further into khun-dolyo and other buryat legends. you can read everything for yourself here.
East Asia is an Asian region on the eastern side of the Asian continent.
AINU ─ “The Ainu people are a Northern Asian people. They are native to Hokkaido island and the Kuril islands.”
─ Ainu Culture
─ Ainu Culture
─ Ainu Dictionary
BURYAT ─ “The Buryat are a Mongolian people. They are native to the Republic of Buryatia in Russia.”
─ Buryat Dictionary (in Russian)
CHINA ─ “The Chinese, or Huaren, people are an East Asian people that share the Chinese culture. They are native to China.”
─ Chinese Mythology
─ Chinese History
─ Chinese Dynasties
JAPAN ─ “The Japanese people are an East Asian people that share the Japanese culture. They are native to Japan.”
─ Japanese Information
─ Japanese Language
─ Japanese Calligraphy
KOREA ─ “The Korean people are an East Asian people. They are native to the Korean Peninsula.”
─ Korean Customs
─ Korean History
─ Korean Language
MACAU ─ “The Macau people refers to anyone that is from Macau. Those of Portuguese descent are referred to as ‘Macanese.’”
─ Macau Information
MANCHU ─ “The Manchu people are a Tungusic people. They are native to China.”
─ Manchu History
─ Manchu Language
MONGOLIA ─ “The Mongolian, or Mongol, people are an East Asian people. They are native to Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and the Buryatia Republic.”
─ Mongolian Art
─ Mongolian Texts (in German)
─ Mongolian History
RYUKYU ISLANDS ─ “The Ryukyuan, or Loochooan, people are an East Asian people. They are native to the Ryukyu Islands, between the Kyushu island of Japan and Taiwan.”
─ Okinawan Folktales (in Japanese)
─ Ryukyuan History
─ Ryukyuan Languages
SHINTO ─ “Shinto, or Shintoism, is an East Asian religion. It originated in Japan.”
─ Shinto Information
─ The Kojiki
─ The Nihon Shoki
in buryaad mongol folklore, mu shubuun/mu shuvuun appears as a girl with a bird beak, who lures in men and eats them.
typically mu shubuun often hide their beaks with their hands. in some stories, a widowed woman becomes a mu shubuun after eating the liver of her deceased lover and dying afterwards.
Got a really good idea for a meme but you can only really understand it if you know about ancient Tunka Buryat culture so can you guys pretend like it’s really funny please.