How the fascists appropriated the swastika, and how it affected the lives of Asian peoples Approval of the Red Army swastika and its censorship In 1919, at the height of the Civil War, the commander of the South-Eastern Front of the Red Army, V.I. Shorin, signed an order approving a distinctive sleeve insignia for Kalmyk military formations. This sign became the lyungtn - the Buddhist symbol of the swastika. The word lyungtn comes from the Buddhist terms meaning "vortex" and "vital energy".

Let's talk to guest author Bulyash Todaeva Photo collage: Foundation for Support of Indigenous Peoples of Latin America April 22 is International Mother Earth Day This holiday was established by the UN General Assembly in 2009 (UN resolution A/RES/63/278) . According to the UN, the purpose of the holiday is to remind people to move towards a more sustainable economy that benefits both people and the planet.

Study of the dynamics of attitudes of the ethnic population of Russia from the national republics. Methodology and demographics of the study The goal of the project was to study the changing attitude of the Buryat and Tuvan populations in the Republics of Buryatia and Tyva to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Attention has been focused on two variables: changes in this relationship over time and processes of decolonization.

Applied research within the framework of the “Réexister” project. Author: Bulyash Todaeva, artist, designer, engineer, independent researcher. Photo: Saint-Etienne School of Art and Design, City of Design, 2023 “Réexister” - (from the French “re-existing”, “to exist again”) - a project presented at the School of Art and Design in Saint-Etienne (City of Design, 2022) and at Design Week in the Netherlands (2023).

The origins of Altai statehood go back to the turbulent beginning of the 20th century. The Altai people's desire for autonomy first manifested itself in 1917 - in the whirlpool of revolution and civil war. But the first shoots of this idea appeared earlier - back in 1904, when the foundations of national identity began to take shape in the region.

People have many identities. For example, ethnic identity (I am Sakha, I am Buryat:ka), gender identity (I am a woman, I am a man, I am a non-binary person), associated with sexual preferences (I am heterosexual:na, I am queer). When we begin to notice how many different identities and experiences people have, we take the first step toward understanding how Russia's system of oppression and invisibility works.

In the fourth year of a full-scale war against Ukraine, foreign companies continue to operate in Russia, including in the mining industry. One of them is the Swedish Auriant Mining, which mines gold in the Republic of Tyva and also provides “support to SVO participants” through a local company it owns. How a Swedish company manages to remain in Russia, having beneficiaries from Europe and the UK, is in a joint article by the publications “Asians of Russia” and From the Republics.

How the case of a fight between an official and a priest in the Siberian taiga became a source of information about the life of the Tofalars at the beginning of the 19th century At the end of December 1817, police officer Loskutov and Archpriest Orlov went to the outskirts of Nizhneudinsk to collect tofalar ruga (parish collection) from the nomadic people and perform spiritual services. In the evening they met in a yurt and drank alcohol.