Leyla Latypova

3 days ago | themoscowtimes.com | Leyla Latypova

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of The Moscow Times’ Regions Calling newsletter, where our reporters examine key trends and events shaping life and politics in Russia’s regions. This week, MT’s Indigenous special correspondent Leyla Latypova unpacks why the leader of her native republic of Bashkortostan, which has suffered some of the highest losses in the invasion of Ukraine, is now ordering the creation of the republic’s first Ukrainian cultural center.

1 week ago | themoscowtimes.com | Leyla Latypova

Hello and welcome to Regions Calling, The Moscow Times’ weekly newsletter helping you understand the key trends and events shaping life and politics in Russia’s regions. In this edition, MT’s Indigenous special correspondent Leyla Latypovazooms in on the events surrounding the Circassian Day of Mourning marked by both the vast Circassian diaspora and the community that remains in Russia. Subscribe hereso you never miss an issue.

2 weeks ago | themoscowtimes.com | Leyla Latypova

“We saw our Aman off to military service in Ussuriysk in June 2024 and never saw him again, a woman named Inna wrote on Instagram on April 21.  Inna’s 22-year-old nephew, Aman Malyshev, had worked as a model in his native Yakutsk before he went to Ussuriysk, a city in the Far East, to complete the compulsory military training required of all Russian men aged 18-30. “Today, we were informed that he died in Bryansk,” a region near the border with Ukraine, Inna wrote. “He didn’t sign a contract.

2 weeks ago | themoscowtimes.com | Leyla Latypova

Hello and welcome to Regions Calling, a new weekly newsletter from The Moscow Times helping you make sense of events and understand the key trends shaping life and politics beyond the Russian capital. In this week’s edition, MT’s Indigenous special correspondent Leyla Latypova explores how the republic of Tatarstan, which once strove to break away from Russia, has become indispensable to realizing the Kremlin’s grand foreign policy ambitions since the invasion of Ukraine.

3 weeks ago | themoscowtimes.com | Leyla Latypova

Hello and welcome to Regions Calling, a new weekly newsletter from The Moscow Times helping you make sense of events and understand the key trends shaping life and politics beyond the Russian capital. This week’s edition is brought to you by Leyla Latypova, MT’s Indigenous special correspondent covering politics and society in Russia’s regions and ethnic republics. Subscribe here so you never miss an issue.