Khakassia, Altai and Tuva: Tribal Movement, Ethnosymbolism and National-Social Movements in the Turkic Republics of Southern Siberia
There are so many republics in the Russian Federation that the average (and extraordinary) observer gets lost. While Bashkir activists constantly create infomercials, and Ichkerians and Erzya fight on the […]
Why do I want the collapse of the Russian empire?
I came to the Republic of Khakassia in the 70s, for the construction of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station as a young certified specialist. My wife, a young teacher, was […]
The Council of Khakass Elders demanded that only ethnic Khakass be elected head of the Supreme Council
The re-elected head of Khakassia, Valentin Konovalov, was born in the Khabarovsk Territory and has no Khakass roots. United Russia member Sergei Sokol, who is called the future speaker of […]
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 […]
Khakassia Election Campaign Shows How Putin Regime Might Collapse, Pertsev Says
Staunton, Aug. 12 – Khakassia, a small federal subject between the Altai and Krasnoyarsk Kray four-fifths of whose population of 500,000 consists of ethnic Russians, has seldom attracted much attention. […]
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
Russia comes up with new ways to cover up its losses in Ukraine
Upon a request from the Russian Defence Ministry, the government of the Republic of Khakassia, a federal subject of the Russian Federation, has ceased publishing obituaries concerning soldiers killed in […]