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.

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.

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.