7 March 1937 – the linguocide of the Buryat people. The centuries-old tragedy of the Buryats – causes and consequences
In 1937, the Buryat people were banned from using their national script. Today, the Buryat language is considered endangered, and UNESCO predicts it will disappear by mid-century. This tragedy led […]
Get Russia Out of Buryatia! 400 Years of Bondage Are Over
February 2022 marked the beginning of the end of the current Russian Empire – the Republic of Buryatia has a chance to gain long-awaited independence. What are the Buryats living […]
The key to dismantling Russia
A conversation with journalist Yulia Khazagaeva about the decolonization of consciousness, imperial narratives of Russian literature, Russian fears and Buryat subjectivity.
“Exorbitant poverty, which is artificially created.” Buryatka – about the state of affairs in Buryatia
Why are Buryat activists increasingly talking about independence? What doesn’t suit them about modern Russian politics? Is it true that this discourse has rapidly intensified since Russia’s full-scale invasion of […]
On 25 April 1917 Burnatsky was created. The highest executive and administrative body of state power of the Buryat-Mongols
Burnatsky’s main task was to organize elections to the Constituent Assembly and “prepare the Buryat-Mongolian population for the introduction of zemstvo self-government.” The functions of the committee also included the […]
Siberian rebels join the fight to liberate Ukraine
Ethnic minorities volunteer for long trek from far east to oppose Putin`s regime
DECOLONIZATION AND DEIMPERIALIZATION: THE EXPERIENCE OF UKRAINE
Throughout its existence, the Moscovite state always remained an empire, starting with the Moscovite kingdom and ending with Putin’s Russia. The conflict between Moscow and Ukraine goes beyond typical colonial […]
National republics – colonial appendages of Russia, – writer from Tyva Dankhaya Khovalyg
“We are being made the face of war. In order to say later: it was not the Russians who killed the Ukrainians, but the Russians and Ukrainians were brothers.” Dankhaya […]
The struggle of the INDIGENOUS peoples of the Russian Federation for INDEPENDENCE
Erkheten Dorzhi Dugarov, co-chairman of the democratic movement Buryaad-Mongol, and Daavr Dorzhin, member of the Congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk People, spoke on the air of the FREEDOM TV channel about […]
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine initiates the creation of a temporary special commission to develop state policy for Enslaved Nations
The People’s Deputy of Ukraine Yaroslav Yurchyshyn said this from the podium of the parliament.
Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise
Many other people would like to stand next to us, shoulder to shoulder, to say No to the Russian Empire. But the empire frightens and fetters people with fear