Indigenous peoples in Siberia, Muslims in the Caucasus and Crimean Tatars are among the peoples suffering from the mobilization of Vladimir Putin.
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The man in the photo shows a photo of Naidal Tsyrenov (24), who returned home to Ulan-Ude in Buryatia in a coffin, along with three other soldiers there who had also fought in Ukraine.
The Buryats are one of the peoples that have been mobilized in relatively higher numbers than others. Significantly superior, for example, to the Russians in the large cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
– It just shows a total lack of respect for human life. They simply believe that some are worth less than others. These are minority groups in Russia that are considered less valuable than the Russians, says Charlotte Flindt Pedersen, director of Det Udenrigspolitische Selskab in Copenhagen.
– These are people who live in the countryside and who are considered less critical, less resourceful and easier to recruit than people in Moscow and St. Petersburg, he continues.
He has heard of numerous cases where men in entire villages have been mobilized for war.
– They pursue the minority population. While about one percent of the population is recruited in Moscow, it is 10 percent among Yakuts, Buryats, Dagestans … The population on the outskirts is much more vulnerable, continues Charlotte Flindt Pedersen.
An independent tally shows that the largest number of dead soldiers so far come from Dagestan in the Caucasus, he writes Media area.
There – as in other poor republics – the military and security forces are major employers.
There have been several demonstrations in Dagestan in recent days, not least by angry mothers.
Both in Buryatia, where indigenous Buryats dominate, and in Kalmyks, where there is a majority of Kalmyks, activists have begun to evacuate the men relevant to the mobilization, he said. Media area.
After Dagestan, Buryatia has the second largest number of soldiers killed.