Thousands of Buryats, a distinctive ethnic minority in Russia, fled tsarist conscription during World War I as well as the Soviet repressions that followed to form their own microcosm of Buryat ...

In Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, Olkhon Island dwarfs the other rocky islets with its elongated spine. From the map, it ...

When he refers to the cruelty associated with the aggression against Ukraine raising questions about some ethnic minorities, the pope uses with great precision the keys to interpreting aspects of the ...

Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to the head of the President's Office, said that tens and hundreds of times more Tuvans, Buryats and Dagestanis are dying in the war against Ukraine than Muscovites – this ...

Pope Francis has described two of Russia’s ethnic minority groups, the Chechens and Buryats, as some of the “cruelest” troops fighting in Ukraine. The pontiff was speaking in an interview with a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stock photo: Zmina.info Russian families from the far east of the country are travelling to temporarily occupied Luhansk Oblast to ...

In Ukraine, they are trying to form the Siberia battalion, which will include representatives of ethnic minorities from russia. In particular, it will be Buryats who want independence for their ...

Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov has responded to Pope Francis’ statement calling Chechens and Buryats “the cruelest” Russian troops fighting in Ukraine. “It’s a disgrace for a world-class religious figure ...

Between the invaders, the Buryats and the Chechens, there was a massive shootout near Chornobaivka (Kherson region). This is stated in the message of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry ...

In a recent interview with the Catholic magazine America, Pope Francis shared some striking words on the violence in Ukraine. He didn’t name Putin, for example, among those responsible for the war ...