Leading world experts in a legal report accuse Russia of genocide in Ukraine and the intention to destroy the Ukrainian people, in particular, of violating the articles of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The allegations are backed up by a long list of evidence, including examples of massacres, violence, inhuman treatment and other signs of genocide against Ukrainians..

But Russia's aggressive war in Ukraine has revealed obvious manifestations of genocide in Russia itself, where there is a genocide of its own ethnic minorities living in the poorest regions of " We are talking about the policy and results of the conscription of the population into the Russian army in the conditions of the hot phase of the Russian-Ukrainian war..

Russia is losing more and more of its military in the war with Ukraine. The Kremlin is trying to make up for these terrible losses in any way, while the Russian dictator is afraid to openly conduct a full-scale military mobilization. According to British military intelligence, the Russian army has already lost one-third of its ground military forces in the three months of the war, which it had before the start of the military campaign in Ukraine.. In conditions of an acute shortage of " First of all, the male population from remote depressive regions densely populated by national minorities, in particular from the Far East, the North Caucasus, Buryatia, Khakassia, Yakutia, as well as from the occupied regions of Georgia and the Ukrainian Donbass, Syrian mercenaries and representatives of private military companies,.

In large, economically and socially developed cities of Russia, where the majority of the population is ethnic Russians, military conscription is much less. This is explained not only by the priority desire of low-paid representatives of national minorities in the depressed regions of the Russian Federation, where the income level is indeed much lower than in large industrial centers with a superior titular ethnic population. Here, obviously, there is also a corresponding conscription policy aimed at “washing out” the non-titular, minority population.. Thus, during the war, hidden ethnic segregation and genocide (actual " The number of representatives of the poorest national minorities from remote depressed regions of Russia who were killed and wounded in this war disproportionately exceeds the corresponding number of deaths of representatives of the titular nation. Such actions of the Russian authorities fall under paragraph (c) of Article II of the said Convention (“intentional creation for any group of such living conditions that are calculated for its complete or partial physical destruction”).

In mid-April, the opposition Russian publication Mediazona published a report analyzing existing data on the losses of the Russian military in Ukraine.. Using open Russian sources, which, however, are very incomplete, journalists found 1,744 reports of dead Russian soldiers, which is significantly less than the number officially given at that time by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine - more than 22 thousand. The figures cited by Mediazona are also significantly inferior to the statistics given by independent Western sources - about 17 thousand dead Russians. It is emphasized that the majority of the dead are servicemen from poor regions: Buryats, Dagestanis, Tuvans, Khakasses, etc.. Most of the losses are in Dagestan and Buryatia, which are among the poorest regions of Russia. At the same time, there are almost no residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg (where more than 12% of the total population of the Russian Federation lives) in the reports of the dead..

Until May 18, Buryatia, the second after Dagestan in terms of the number of people killed in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian military invasion, lost, according to the significantly incomplete data of Mediazona, 117 soldiers, while Moscow, with a population of approximately 15 times more than the population of Buryatia,. In relation to the population, death in battles was in this republic the highest in all of Russia.. If we revise the lists of names of Russian losses in this war, then the predominance of Muslim ones is striking - primarily from units assembled in Dagestan and other republics of the North Caucasus. Citizens of Russia (or mercenaries) of Central Asian ethnicity also die disproportionately, among whom the majority are Tajiks.

This is partly due to the issue of poverty.. For many young men in Buryatia, Tuva or Dagestan, signing a contract with the army is one of the few options for regular income and an attractive career.. The Russian army is disproportionately made up of poor ethnic non-Russians. But, unlike the US military, which is also recruited, in particular from minority groups exclusively for the volunteer armed forces, few Russian minorities cherish any illusions about equality - both in the Russian army and outside it.. In a vast country where the majority of white Slavs make up about 80% of the population, the deeply rooted culture of Russian titular superiority and racism is still the de facto norm..

Even European non-Slavic minorities in Russia, such as the Finno-Udmurts or Komi, complain that their cultures and languages \u200b\u200bare oppressed or marginalized..

Since Russian losses in Ukraine are increasing day by day and, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, have already reached more than 30 thousand, such ethnic discrimination has become strikingly obvious.. People on the Russian periphery are increasingly worried about the prospect of sending their sons and husbands to die in a war that is being waged for the imperial cause of “Slavic unity”. It is no coincidence that one of the more or less significant anti-war movements in Russia is not those led by intimidated Moscow couch liberals, but a certain national movement " In Buryatia and other peripheral Russian non-titular regions, some local activists are trying to oppose the Kremlin's heavy-handed censorship by creating anti-war posters in their native languages \u200b\u200b(Buryat, Kalmyk, Chuvash). Since the attention of the Russian state machine is focused on ethnic Russians, these slogans hardly register on the radars of federal censors, repressive agencies and the police..

Even liberal Russians who belong to the titular nation do not believe or do not want to believe in the high level of everyday racism and xenophobia in Russia. Blinded by their racial privileges, most ethnic Russians, including the liberal intelligentsia, the systemic opposition, and other predominantly enlightened exiles forced to live abroad today, are unlikely to recognize the existence of undeniable facts of centuries of imperialism and colonialism dominating Russia's previously conquered lands of its neighbors..

What should the destitute national minorities of Russia do in order not to become \? It remains only to remember the traditions of the ancestors and resort to shamanism. On May 26, the main Russian propaganda television channel, Rossiya-1, showed a story from the Ust-Abakan region of Khakassia, where a large group of local shamans performed a sacrificial ceremony, feeding the spirits of war, darkness and fire, urging them not to take the Khakass guys who are fighting in. As the chief shaman of Khakassia stated, the rite was successful, the spirits heard them, so the Khakass guys must return home alive. Not only Khakassian shamans resort to such " It is noteworthy that the gray-haired interlocutors of the spirits ask them not to end the war, but only to return their soldiers alive..

The 300-year-old imperial history of Russia, which began with the proclamation by Tsar Peter I in 1721 of the Moscow Tsardom of the Russian Empire, was the history of its expansion, accompanied by mass repressions, bloody wars, and the genocide of dozens of local peoples who crossed the path of the militant empire.

Today, the Russian Federation, as the successor state and continuer of that empire headed by dictator Putin, is trying to pursue an imperial predatory policy of genocide aimed at independent and sovereign Ukraine, the population of its occupied territories, as well as at its non-titular peoples living in different regions of the empire. But modern international law, democratic values, norms and rules by which the world lives in the 21st century are fundamentally different from the values \u200b\u200band norms of the past.. Therefore, such a Russian imperial policy of aggression and genocide is today receiving a collective resolute rebuff from Ukraine and all democratic countries of the world..

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