The Russian government, facing mounting losses in Ukraine, appears to be intensifying its coercive recruitment tactics, ...

Russia’s acts in Ukraine do not suggest that it is looking to protect ethnic Russians. Instead, it seeks to destroy Ukraine and its citizens, regardless of their ethnicity and language.

In the nearly two years since Russia invaded Ukraine, 300,000 Russian soldiers have died or been wounded, many of them conscripts. For soldiers from Siberia and Russia’s Far East, home to many ...

Among kontraktniki, Bashkortostan leads Russia in the number of confirmed deaths: 965, according to the RFE/RL tally. Tatarstan ranked second, with 557 volunteer deaths.

Leaders in the ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh said it would soon “cease to exist” and would be reintergrated with Azerbaijan.

Through research conducted between 2014 and 2017 in three of Russia’s ethnic republics (Buryatia, Karelia, and Tatarstan), Stewart examines the ways in which regional identity fits into the Kremlin’s ...

In Russia, an increase in hate crimes against ethnic minorities is alarming to many. The racist attacks are fueled by extremist rhetoric from neo-fascist and ultra-nationalist groups.

Russia’s acts in Ukraine do not suggest that it is looking to protect ethnic Russians. Instead, it seeks to destroy Ukraine and its citizens, regardless of their ethnicity and language.

Russia’s ethnic minorities disproportionately die in the war in Ukraine World Dec 11, 2023 06:35 PM EST By — Nick Schifrin By — Sarah Cutler, Columbia Journalism Fellow ...

When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, the Kremlin claimed that it was coming to aid ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in Ukraine. It stated that it would seek to take ...