Tag: Lake Baikal

Moscow’s Nervousness About Buryatia Highlights Transbaikal Republic’s Importance

April 1, 2015

Staunton, March 31 — Foreign intelligence services are seeking to drive a wedge between the various peoples of Buryatia, a Kremlin official told a Novosibirsk meeting on ethnic relations and national security yesterday, a latest indication of Moscow’s increasing nervousness about that strategically important republic and a signal to Buryats of just how important they […]