Despite Centuries of Trying, Russia Still Can’t Genocide Buryatia
Russia has spent hundreds of years trying to erase Buryatia — through conquest, forced assimilation, destruction of religious institutions, targeted executions of its intellectual class, and, more recently, the quiet suffocation of its cultural production. Yet despite this long, deliberate campaign of erasure, Buryatia persists. And nowhere is this struggle clearer than in the repeated attempts to suppress Buryat cinema. For the Buryat people —
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