What’s wrong with the Russian liberal’s decolonization recipe

What’s wrong with the Russian liberal’s decolonization recipe

The video of the famous Russian publicist Mikhail Pozharskiy about decolonization can be regarded as a means to start a public discussion on this topic, but if the Russians may like Pozharskiy’s theses, then representatives of the indigenous peoples of the current Russian Federation have something to say about this.

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Give alms for war, Muslims: Tatarstan Spiritual Muslim Board raised 1.8 million rubles in support of participants in the war with Ukraine

Give alms for war, Muslims: Tatarstan Spiritual Muslim Board raised 1.8 million rubles in support of participants in the war with Ukraine

Zakat, the Charitable Foundation of the Spiritual Muslim Board of Tatarstan  collected 1.8 million rubles during the action to support mobilized Tatarstan residents. First of all, they plan to use the collected money to buy warm clothes, first aid kits, and halal products. Fundraising continues. Boxes for donations are set up in rural shops and they explain to fellow villagers the importance of supporting  soldiers fellow believers whom Putin sent for a slaughter in a foreign country. However, earlier the Spiritual Muslim Board of Tatarstan stated that Ukraine is in the hands of “neo-Nazis”, so there is no need to be surprised here. As well as how freely pro-Kremlin muftis interpret Islam.

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“Ukrainian russophobia has absolutely no boundaries and limits”: a monument to the Chuvash communist poet Mikhail Sespel was demolished in Chernihiv region, which agitated the occupation authorities in Chuvashia

“Ukrainian russophobia has absolutely no boundaries and limits”: a monument to the Chuvash communist poet Mikhail Sespel was demolished in Chernihiv region, which agitated the occupation authorities in Chuvashia

With the big war against Ukraine, the Kremlin only spurred the processes of both de-communisation and decolonisation (demoscovitisation, de-russification, de-russianisation – whatever you call it) of this country.

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Grimaces of patriotism

Grimaces of patriotism

In the Soviet Union, the popular science magazine Vokrug Sveta was published, in which there was a heading Сlorful World, which ridiculed the “grimaces of capitalism.” Articles about stupid bourgeois laws were often published there. For example, “There is a law in Wisconsin that prohibits opening umbrellas near horse-drawn carriages!” “Ha ha ha! Those silly Americans!”

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War, then again war and again war

War, then again war and again war

Most Western military analysts, as well as representatives of British, American, Estonian and Ukrainian intelligence, are now openly expressing the same fears that Arkadiy Babchenko, a journalist, blogger and still a citizen of the Russian Federation, announced for everyone a long time ago.

They lie in the fact that after losing the current war, the empire will not fall apart, but will only become more united around the dictator and even more zombified. The Kremlin will be preparing for revenge within 10-15-30 years and preparing for a much larger war, which will be not only against Ukraine and other post-Soviet countries, but also against all Europe and the NATO bloc.

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Why did the Erzya diaspora of Estonia ignore the congress?

In Estonia, there are two Erzya societies, and the number of Erzya or people with Erzya roots is in the hundreds of people (someone gives numbers of a thousand or more). Erzya organizations, however, like the entire Erzya diaspora in Estonia, ignored the Erzya congress in Otepää. It is no secret that the Erzya people of Estonia are afraid of the national movement like fire. Even after the start of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war, the Erzya diaspora of Estonia prefers to remain silent and speaks out only in cases where it is simply impossible to sit quietly, because one can get into obstruction by the Estonians.

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