separatism

The empire’s extensive development, socio-economic and political crises, and territorial mismanagement have repeatedly fueled separatist sentiments in the regions of Russia. Thus, separatism is not a new challenge for the…

The Russian Federation is a vast territory that the current Kremlin elite runs and develops highly inefficient. Significant natural resources are located far from the federal center and, actually, all…

The Finno-Ugric peoples have influenced greatly on the modern Russian ethnos formation. Nevertheless, many of them stayed isolated in their linguistic, religious and cultural development. First of all, we are…

The Slavs explored the European part of Russia much earlier than Siberia and the North Caucasus. However, the peoples of Turkic and Mongolian origin, some of whom had a state…

The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union were extensively emerging imperial states, developing vast swathes and entering into constant armed conflicts with various ethnic groups in their path. This activity…