Historian Khamutaev on the experience of Buryat self-awareness, identity and hope

Vladimir Khamutaev is the first academic to prove the violent, colonial nature of the annexation of Buryat-Mongolia to Russia, for which he was persecuted in his own country and received asylum in the United States. He defended the autonomy of the Ust-Orda and Aginsky Buryat Okrugs and raised the issue of national self-awareness in the late 80s of the last century. A living witness of the era, he discusses how the Buryat-Mongol nation can survive during the imperial agony.