"The Kremlin does not want us to realize our unity"
Picket in Moscow against the unification of the districts Two years ago, two national Buryat territories lost their autonomy ten years ago. Since January 1, 2008, the Ust-Horde Buryat Autonomous Okrug became part of the Irkutsk region, and from March 1, the Aginsky Buryat Autonomous Okrug, together with the Chita region, formed a new subject of the Federation-the Trans-Baikal Territory. For most Russians, this administrative reform was unnoticed.