Russia is a prison of nations and Buryatia is an inmate
Russia’s so-called “republics” are republics in name, but colonies in function. From Buryatia’s mountains and pine-covered steppes, the wealth flows one way— toward Moscow. Timber, coal, copper, rare earth metals— extracted with industrial hunger, shipped out to feed the war machine or line the pockets of the elite. What remains is the silence of abandonment: hollow towns, shuttered clinics, soldiers’ funerals. Buryatia is among the most exploited. And among the most sacrificed.
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