It needs clever, educated, industrious people, who wish to not only work ... In the meantime, there have been quite a few cases in which ethnic Russians – citizens of the post-Soviet republics ...

"This is how the whole world found out that the Indigenous people of Russia are against the war ... disproportionately affected smaller ethnic groups of Siberia.

According to the Russian presidential spokesman, Ukraine "certainly should" do all these things. "However, since it’s not being done and since these people are ethnic Russians, Russia has always ...

450,000 Soldiers wounded or killed The strategic conscription of people from Russia's peripheries serves multiple purposes for Putin. It spares ethnic Russians from mass conscription and ...

-- with large Russian-speaking populations -- could be in his sights.

"If we want to survive as an ethnic group - well ... the war has prompted an exodus of approximately 1 million people from Russia, intensifying the challenges of brain drain and labor shortages.

Russification was the policy of enforcing Russian culture on the vast numbers of ethnic minorities that lived in the Russian Empire. It greatly affected the Poles, Lithuanians and the Ukranians.

01:37 In 2023, a group primarily made up of ethnic Russian citizens made a push for independence from Kazakhstan. The Assembly of People of Kazakhstan, an ethnic collaboration group that reports ...

Mr Asafyev added people in Bashkortostan were already ... running claims that a disproportionately high number of ethnic minorities in Russia are being sent to fight in Ukraine.