The Latest Breaking News from Buryatia

Test Tube Accident or Buryatia Trip? Conflicting Reports Emerge Over How Russian Lab Worker Fell Ill

Russian lab worker Daria Shipilova died after severe pneumonia, as conflicting reports link her illness to a lab accident or a disputed work trip to Buryatia.

International Business Times UK · 40m ago

‘Putin is using ethnic minorities to fight in Ukraine’: Activist

Russian minorities are much more likely to die in Ukraine, the Free Buryatia Foundation tells Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera · Oct 25, 2022

‘Danger to the regime?’ Russia faces ethnic minority anti-mobilisation protests

Russia is seeing a wave of demonstrations in areas with high ethnic minority populations against President Vladimir Putin’s call for “partial mobilisation”. Analysts say this approach is undermining the Kremlin’s legitimacy among these groups and is likely to give Russia poorly motivated soldiers for its war against Ukraine.

France 24 · Sep 30, 2022

One Siberian postcode has dozens of war dead - but mysteriously none in Moscow

Different parts of Russia have widely different numbers of war dead, according to the official record, raising questions about fatality estimates issued by the Kremlin during the invasion

Daily Mirror · Apr 3, 2022

The young Russian soldiers sent to die in Vladimir Putin’s bloody invasion

The spiralling death toll among Russian troops was laid bare on Thursday as some of the young soldiers who died in Ukraine were named.

Evening Standard · Mar 31, 2022

Coffins in Buryatia: Ukraine invasion takes toll on Russia’s remote regions

A lot of the soldiers dying in Putin’s war are from poorer ‘ethnic minority’ republics, says Russian military expert

The Guardian - UK · Mar 30, 2022