In late December, Alexey Tsydenov, the governor of Russia’s Republic of Buryatia, created a brand-new agency aimed at preventing “separatism and nationalism” in the region. While the office is the ...

The Free Buryatia organization announced that around 150 Buryat soldiers who were serving in the Russian Army in occupied territories of Ukraine have resigned their positions and asked to be returned ...

Born on July 21, 1972 in the Kyiv Region. He spent the summer of 1981 in the village of Novaya Bryan in the Buryat ASSR (awaiting trial) where his father, dissident Vasyl Lisovyi, was in exile. There, ...

Serhii Haidai, the head of the Luhansk Oblast Military Administration, has reported that the Russians have withdrawn the remaining Buryat troops from Sievierodonetsk because they are significantly ...

If administrators in the Russian Republic of Buryatia get their way, students in the region may soon be required to take drug tests. The move is similar to past proposals, many of which have been ...

This article was written by Karina Pronina for Lyudi Baikala (Baikal People). An edited version is published on Global Voices under a media partnership agreement. In 1924, a Buryat family fled to ...