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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Human rights groups have long pointed out that the most impoverished regions of Russia are paying the highest price for the war in Ukraine. Now, some of those caught up in this war are speaking out ...

They were uprooted for decades and kept from practicing their cultural traditions. Now Buryat shamanism is blossoming once again at Lake Baikal - the Sacred Sea, as it is called in Siberia. Juri ...

Pope Francis has described two of Russia's ethnic minority groups, the Chechens and Buryats, as some of the "cruelest" troops fighting in Ukraine. Pope Francis has described two of Russia's ethnic ...

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 ...

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 ...