How a hundred years ago the authorities were looking for separatism in Buryatia, and now they are looking for again In January 2024, the headquarters of the threats of separatism and nationalism was created in Buryatia, and headed by the head of the republic, Alexei Tsydenov. Something similar here was already in the 30s of the last century-then it was called "the struggle against the panmonggolism." The case of the Pankongol conspiracy was fabricated and turned into mass repressions.