Leyla Latypova
Editor at EURACTIV
Tatar from Bashqortostan 🐝 | Journalist & analyst | Author @FromRepublics
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1 week ago |
themoscowtimes.com | Leyla Latypova |Andrei Grigorev
Volunteers counting Russia’s losses in the war in Ukraine have long pointed to the disproportionate numbers of ethnic minorities among the fallen soldiers. In addition to communities Indigenous to Russia — such as Buryats and Tyvans — some of the country’s non-Indigenous minorities also sustained outsized losses. Among them are at least 1,017 ethnic Germans.
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1 week ago |
themoscowtimes.com | Leyla Latypova
Forest fires have swept several of Russia’s Siberian and Far East regions over the past week, setting off what is projected to be yet another devastating wildfire season. At least 52 wildfires spanning more than 41,675 hectares were active across Russia on Thursday, the country's Aerial Forest Protection Service reported.
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2 weeks ago |
themoscowtimes.com | Leyla Latypova
Forest fires have swept several of Russia’s Siberian and Far East regions over the past week, setting off what is projected to be yet another devastating wildfire season. At least 52 wildfires spanning more than 41,675 hectares were active across Russia on Thursday, the country's Aerial Forest Protection Service reported.
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3 weeks ago |
themoscowtimes.com | Leyla Latypova
When forecasts predicted that the waters of Siberia’s Ishim River would soon flood the city that shares its name, Russian Orthodox priests held a prayer service in the skies over the city to protect it. "We carried out a flight with the icons of the Kazan Mother of God, Saint Prophet Elijah, and Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. We read a prayer against flooding," Bishop Tikhon of Ishim told the Ura.ru news outlet on Monday.
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1 month ago |
themoscowtimes.com | Leyla Latypova
In its routine update of the “foreign agents” registry on Friday, Russia’s Justice Ministry included two journalists from Abkhazia, the Georgian breakaway region recently rocked by protests against a controversial investment deal with Moscow.
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Bashqortostan, the leader in casualty numbers with 55+% Turkic population, is also an industrial powerhouse. Oil and gas don't come from the Red Square. They are taken from Indigenous lands. This is not *just* poverty. This is colonialism.
I question that the Kremlin is specifically *trying* to recruit non-Slavic soldiers: this is a class/wealth issue more than a race one. They tend to come from impoverished regions, often with large non-Slav populations, where the sizeable payments offered are more attractive. But
Thank you @windelspechtd for featuring me in this brilliant piece exploring how journalism (even in exile) can help with democratizing and reimagining russia https://t.co/HArRWZoxJw
RT @FromRepublics: Letter from FtR founder @LatypovaLeyla https://t.co/3YyvV5maRV
