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thenuclearmallard · 3 months

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Important read.

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blackmetalnature · 2 years

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Pustozerk, Narayan mar, Russia.

#russia #russian paganism #indigenous russia #indigenous siberia #siberia #siberians #Siberian spirituality #Siberia Russia #Pustozerk #Narayan #Narayan mar #ruins #altar #idol #idol worship

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irithnova · 8 months

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The Russian state using ethnic minorities as cannon fodder - with a focus on Buryats

Article written in 2022, update on the Free Buryatia Foundation in September 2023 given at the end of the post.

Putin announced on October 14th 2022 that by the end of October, his partial mobilisation process would be complete

The recruitment target was 300,000. 222,000 were recruited, and it was claimed that there'd be no more plans for future recruitment

The mobilisation process soaked nation wide outrage which lead to mass protests.

It drew in criticism from some of the Russian political elite

The mobilisation process disproportionately affected ethnic minorities/impoverished regions (many impoverished regions have a high ethnic minority population)

Tuva Republic

Regions that held high populations of ethnic minorities bared the brunt of war-related deaths.

Both Ukrainian media and authorities have levelled accusations at Russian ethnic minorities - that they committed war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine

This accusations was made in May 2022 by Lydmyla Denisova, Ukrainian ombudsman for human rights

Buryats and Chechens were being accused of this

This was a form of scapegoating (not to say they 0 ethnic minorities have committed war crimes in Ukraine of course)

The Free Buryat Foundation investigated this and produced a report that challenged the notion that Buryats were ever sent to Bucha, let alone being responsible for the war crimes committed

Victoria Maladaeva is the vice president of the Free Buryatia Foundation.

She said:

Dagestan, Tuva Republic and Buryatia Republic have the highest death tolls

Moscow, with 17 million, had >50 deaths.

Buryatia with only 980,000 had 364

A Buryat is 7.8 x more likely to die in the war compared to an ethnic Russian.

A Tuvan is 10.4x more likely

The biggest losses were at the beginning of the war and numbers gradually decreased.

Mobilisation was first and foremost carried out in ethnic republics

The day Putin announced this, authorities came to Buryatia at night, went into people's homes and took them from their beds.

No one was given draft notices

They even took men with multiple children, men from the same family

Endangered ethnic groups reside in Dagestan

There are very small communities of those people with populations of around 13,000

Despite this, those minorities were still drafted

There are also very small communities in the Sakha Republic.

They are so remote, helicopters are needed to be called for medical treatment

They almost never come because of how remote these communities are

Funnily enough, helicopters came immediately to draft those people upon Putin's announcement

Putin is a Russian imperialist through and through

None Russians are treated like second class citizens

Russian cultural chauvinism is seen even in small things - such as names

Putin would frequently mispronounce Kazakhstan's president's name. If you have an ethnic Buryat name for example, Russians are reluctant to use it, instead assigning you an "easier" Russian name

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

Unfortunately, many of the people of Buryatia believe in the Russian narrative about Nazi ideology in Ukraine

It is one of the missions of the free Buryatia Foundation to help Buryats understand that this is Russian propaganda

The focus on Buryat/ethnic minority war crimes has a racial element

When an ethnic minority commits a war crime, their ethnicity is singled out

It should not matter the ethnicity of a war criminal

78 Buryat soldiers from the 11th air assault brigade were barred from terminating their contract

They were imprisoned in Luhansk.

Only Ilya Kaminskiy returned. The fate of the other men is unknown

The Free Buryatia Foundation knows they cannot help everyone but they do their best. They help people in terminating their contracts for example and have been quite successful in this.

The Free Buryatia Foundation was established to counter Russian propaganda and to protest the war.

People worldwide took an interest to this, so they founded the free Buryatia Foundation.

The Free Buryatia Foundation is the first ethnic anti war organisation in Russia

They aided in founding anti war organisations in other ethnic regions such as Tuva, Kalmykia, Udmurtia, Sakha

Many Buryats fled to Mongolia and Kazakhstan

Some men were able to come back after being drafted, some were not

The economic situation for Buryatia is dire. It ranked 81st out of 85 of Russia's regions when it came to living standards

Buryats had to spend money on a list of supplies for war that Russia did not provide them

Very recently, on September 1st, Russia banned the Free Buryatia Foundation, labelling them as undesirable and anti Russian.

Here is the website for the Free Buryatia Foundation:

And here is where you can donate:

Please spread around or give what you can.

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nonrussian · 1 year

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Иллюстрации "Кукушка". Ненецкая сказка Illustrations "Cuckoo". Nenets fairy tale

Illustrator Kirill Ovchinnikov Иллюстратор Кирилл Овчиников. Из "Олешек-золотые рожки. Сказки народов Севера" 1968.

#non-russian #indigenous russian #indigenous russia #siberian people #Samodeic #Nenets #Ненцы #Nenets culture #Культура Ненцы

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meliissa-art · 3 months

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"Hedie" is a traditional Even song. But traditional songs can be remixed too <3

#even #evenk #siberia #siberian music #indigenous music #north asia #indigenous russia #Lamut #Youtube

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tonechkag · 1 year

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I'm in love with these beautiful wooden statues of the gods, spirts & other folkloric figures in Chuvash mythology. There are over 100 of them in the Suvar Bulgar Ethno Park not too far from Cheboksary in the Chuvash Republic.

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sophiemariepl · 1 year

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The fact that there are the so-called “anti-imperialists” and “leftists” out there, who do zero research on the situation of the Indigenous people in Russia and then dare say that Indigenous activists like Yana Tannagasheva are neo-liberal American spies, just because they received de@th threats from the FSB just for fighting for their basic rights, is just appalling.

Like, a literal gen0cide of hundreds of nations, cultures and languages is funny to them. The same thing that happened to the Indigenous people in the Americas is funny to them, because it is not being done by the US. This is the real face of a large portion of leftist internet activism, or so it seems. What is leftist in cheering for people being illegally drafted and killed for a colonial empire’s war?

Like, WTF is wrong with those people.

#russian colonialism #russian imperialism #tankies gotta tank #tankies #tankies rob people off their voice and stories #indigenous russia #indigenous russian #indigenous rights #russian war on ukraine #russo ukrainian war #ukraine #russia’s invasion of ukraine #russia #siberia #caucasus moutains #central asia #decolonize russia

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enagismos · 1 year

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the previous post made me remember something that happened 2 years ago. so my classmate (the one who's husband went to war and died, let's call her masha) occasionally ranted to me about how racist and chauvinist our male classmates are. they were joking about a turkish exchange student who went to this seminar with us. and she was SHOCKED by the jokes. APPALLED. she thought they were so progressive!

maybe, like, three weeks later after this it was announced that our archaeological practice would take place in abkhazia. only me and few other people were excited about it. about 60% were bitching and moaning and being, like, openly racist. "why does it have to be abkhazia? it's so dangerous! they're savages! they rape women! you know how caucasians are!" all this was said in front of me and my other classmate, an armenian guy. i tried to reason with them, but there was no point. when i tried to ask the girls who were SOOOO SCARED to go to caucasus why exactly do they think it was dangerous, they said some caucasian men tried to hit on them online (scandalous!), so it means they're bound to rape them as soon as they cross the border. when i tried to tell them that I've lived in caucasus for 17 years and I'm fine, they wouldn't listen.

so back to masha. she didn't say anything in the groupchat about the whole situation. but when my friend approached her to ask what she thinks about the practice taking place in caucasus, she answered (and I'm quoting this word for word):

"well, of course i don't want to go. it's dangerous. caucasians are, like, ethically retarded. no offence to mila, she doesn't count, there are exceptions everywhere".

I assume I "didn't count" because I went to the same "prestigious" uni as her noble russian self. maybe that way i somehow "proved" I was "above" the regular, savage caucasians, who grew up on the mountains and rape every woman they see.

some of my classmates actually didn't go to the archaeological practice because of that. mind you, they would gladly visit georgia, because there's wine, khachapuri and christianity, for many russians georgians (and armenians) are "tamed, cultured" caucasians. but never north caucasus. we cut their head off as soon as they enter. and yallah sometimes i wish we did.

#long post sorry but I'm still angry from that whole situation #caucasus #russia #indigenous russia

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echo-s-land · 1 year

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I knew a girl back in 2014, before I lost contact with her bc I had to move away, she made me realized what friendship really was (although I wouldn't consider her as a friend and she probably never did)

I can't see why I'm connecting the dots only now but one of the few things I remember about her - cuz it was odd but well I guess today I've got my answer - was that she was "from the north, near russia". She did say how it was called but I can't recall the name, what i do remember though is that when I told my mom she said "It's not a country, it's part of russia" and yeah I think she was from one of the indigenous groups russia just.. swallows, silences and erases

Wherever she is I hope she's doing well :(

#i cant explain how much i hate my gouvernement didnt ever talk about what russia is doing until this year #stop russia #stop russian aggression #russia is a terrorist state #indigenous russia

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thenuclearmallard · 1 year

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There's an Indigenous page for the ethnic groups in the Caucasus region speaking out against the misuse of the word and bringing education due to the war and erasure going on.

There are a lot of Indigenous pages beginning to form and being highlighted with activism against Russia. This is powerful to see.