Tag: Buryat Republic

Islam Spreading Not Only among Ethnic Russians But Also Among Russia’s Non-Russians

October 6, 2015
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, October 6 The Moscow media have long focused on the extent to which Islam is recovering among the historically Muslim peoples of Russia and on the acceptance of Islam by a limited number of ethnic Russians, but these outlets have devoted far less attention to the spread of Islam among non-Russian groups not historically […]

Russians Repress Ukrainians In Far East And Threaten To Deport Crimean Tatars There

March 27, 2015
Ukraine
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, March 26 — Ethnic Ukrainians in the Russian Far East, the descendants of Ukrainians who moved there voluntarily in late tsarist times and forcibly in Soviet ones, are being harassed by Russians there for their support of Ukraine, even as Russians in Crimea are threatening the Crimean Tatars with deportation to that faraway region. […]