Russia's long persecuted ethnic minorities — Buryats, Chechens and Yakuts — have seized on the war in Ukraine to make a case for the independence of their own regions. They say the conflict has laid bare Russia's violent and imperial mentality, not just in Eastern Europe, but within its own borders.
So Muscovy’s colonies gonna be free? Hoping for that, so many ethnic minorities men were sent to the meat grinder recently. They deserve better.