Seseg Jigjitova, a Berlin-based illustrator from the Siberian republic of Buryatia, has emerged as a prominent critic of ...

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 ...

The Buryats are a group of peoples who prior to the arrival of Russian influence in Siberia were a nomadic herding people. They spoke a Mongol language and initially showed a strong resistance to ...

Earlier, Pope Francis called Chechens and Buryats the "cruelest" part of Russian forces in Ukraine, speaking in an interview for the US media. "Unexpected and unpredicted, the head of the ...

In December, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that it received an official apology from the Vatican for Pope Francis’ remarks about Chechens and Buryats, adding that the incident is over ...