#indigenous russians

[songs-of-the-east]

Tӧӧlӧs Turkic girl from Altai, Russia

#siberia #siberian #indigenous #turkic #russia #altai #siberians #turkics #russian #altaian

[jyndor]

do people understand that crimea is only so heavily russian because russia ethnically cleansed the region of the indigenous tatars over like two/three centuries, and even though they were granted right of return in 1989 by the soviets they still only make up like 15% of the crimea population, so frankly any majority opinion over what the crimeans want that doesn't take into account what the tatars want is actually just a symptom of russian imperialism?

oh but I'm sure then these same idiots will claim that because russia doesn't consider them indigenous that they aren't indigenous, even though the tatars have been the people in crimea since ethnogenesis, are now and have historically been marginalized by both russia and ukraine, have connections to the land and distinct culture as well as a governing body.

so no actually it isn't right for ukraine to just give up crimea even though the majority of the region wants to be annexed by russia because that majority was settled there in order to displace the tatars.

now ultimately if the tatars want independence they should absolutely have that, and if the russian majority has a problem with that, they can go back to russia. this is what these folks would say in any other case. and they'd be right - the self-determination of the indigenous people of a region trumps the comfort of settlers. always. but as of right now they are in favor of staying in ukraine.

I get that the west and the us are the spawn of satan but that doesn't make russia good lmao you do not need to defend them for their bullshit

#crimean tatars #indigenous rights #ukraine #russian imperialism #imperialism #slava ukraini

[crippledanarchy]

Tumblr runs on US america rules: laws and guidelines are written so everyone is breaking them at all times. These rules are then selectively enforced as social punishment and control

#remember when they erased the entire Ferguson tag and then banned a bunch of Black bloggers and called them russian bots #and those times they erased all the Standing Rock tags and all the Indigenous bloggers over the years #and most recently have been banning accounts for speaking out against the genocide in Palestine

[blackmetalnature]

Pustozerk, Narayan mar, Russia.

#russia #russian paganism #indigenous russia #indigenous siberia #siberia #siberians #Siberian spirituality #Siberia Russia #Pustozerk #Narayan #Narayan mar #ruins #altar #idol #idol worship

[yourdailyqueer]

Renata Litvinova

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Bisexual

DOB: 12 January 1967  

Ethnicity: Volga Tatar, white

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Actress, director, screenwriter, producer, fashion designer, presenter

Note: Partner of Zemfira and resides with her in Paris after leaving Russia

#Renata Litvinova #bisexuality #femme #lgbt #lgbtq #female #bisexual #1967 #biracial #tatar #indigenous #native #russian #actor #director #screenwriter #producer #fashion designer

[irithnova]

The Russian state using ethnic minorities as cannon fodder - with a focus on Buryats

Article written in 2022, update on the Free Buryatia Foundation in September 2023 given at the end of the post.

Putin announced on October 14th 2022 that by the end of October, his partial mobilisation process would be complete

The recruitment target was 300,000. 222,000 were recruited, and it was claimed that there'd be no more plans for future recruitment

The mobilisation process soaked nation wide outrage which lead to mass protests.

It drew in criticism from some of the Russian political elite

The mobilisation process disproportionately affected ethnic minorities/impoverished regions (many impoverished regions have a high ethnic minority population)

Tuva Republic

Regions that held high populations of ethnic minorities bared the brunt of war-related deaths.

Both Ukrainian media and authorities have levelled accusations at Russian ethnic minorities - that they committed war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine

This accusations was made in May 2022 by Lydmyla Denisova, Ukrainian ombudsman for human rights

Buryats and Chechens were being accused of this

This was a form of scapegoating (not to say they 0 ethnic minorities have committed war crimes in Ukraine of course)

The Free Buryat Foundation investigated this and produced a report that challenged the notion that Buryats were ever sent to Bucha, let alone being responsible for the war crimes committed

Victoria Maladaeva is the vice president of the Free Buryatia Foundation.

She said:

Dagestan, Tuva Republic and Buryatia Republic have the highest death tolls

Moscow, with 17 million, had >50 deaths.

Buryatia with only 980,000 had 364

A Buryat is 7.8 x more likely to die in the war compared to an ethnic Russian.

A Tuvan is 10.4x more likely

The biggest losses were at the beginning of the war and numbers gradually decreased.

Mobilisation was first and foremost carried out in ethnic republics

The day Putin announced this, authorities came to Buryatia at night, went into people's homes and took them from their beds.

No one was given draft notices

They even took men with multiple children, men from the same family

Endangered ethnic groups reside in Dagestan

There are very small communities of those people with populations of around 13,000

Despite this, those minorities were still drafted

There are also very small communities in the Sakha Republic.

They are so remote, helicopters are needed to be called for medical treatment

They almost never come because of how remote these communities are

Funnily enough, helicopters came immediately to draft those people upon Putin's announcement

Putin is a Russian imperialist through and through

None Russians are treated like second class citizens

Russian cultural chauvinism is seen even in small things - such as names

Putin would frequently mispronounce Kazakhstan's president's name. If you have an ethnic Buryat name for example, Russians are reluctant to use it, instead assigning you an "easier" Russian name

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

Unfortunately, many of the people of Buryatia believe in the Russian narrative about Nazi ideology in Ukraine

It is one of the missions of the free Buryatia Foundation to help Buryats understand that this is Russian propaganda

The focus on Buryat/ethnic minority war crimes has a racial element

When an ethnic minority commits a war crime, their ethnicity is singled out

It should not matter the ethnicity of a war criminal

78 Buryat soldiers from the 11th air assault brigade were barred from terminating their contract

They were imprisoned in Luhansk.

Only Ilya Kaminskiy returned. The fate of the other men is unknown

The Free Buryatia Foundation knows they cannot help everyone but they do their best. They help people in terminating their contracts for example and have been quite successful in this.

The Free Buryatia Foundation was established to counter Russian propaganda and to protest the war.

People worldwide took an interest to this, so they founded the free Buryatia Foundation.

The Free Buryatia Foundation is the first ethnic anti war organisation in Russia

They aided in founding anti war organisations in other ethnic regions such as Tuva, Kalmykia, Udmurtia, Sakha

Many Buryats fled to Mongolia and Kazakhstan

Some men were able to come back after being drafted, some were not

The economic situation for Buryatia is dire. It ranked 81st out of 85 of Russia's regions when it came to living standards

Buryats had to spend money on a list of supplies for war that Russia did not provide them

Very recently, on September 1st, Russia banned the Free Buryatia Foundation, labelling them as undesirable and anti Russian.

Here is the website for the Free Buryatia Foundation:

And here is where you can donate:

Please spread around or give what you can.

#Russia #Russian imperialism #russian colonialism #russian invasion #Ukraine #invasion of ukraine #russian invasion of ukraine #war in ukraine #Buryatia #Tuva #chechnya #Sakha #Yakutia #Kalmykia #Indigenous people of Russia #Asian Russians #indigenous russia #indigenous russian #Native Russia #Native Russians #Russian ethnic groups #Free Buryatia foundation #Free Buryatia #Anti Russia #Russian propaganda #human rights #Russian ethnic minorities

[ohsalome]

#russia #russian imperialism #indigenous rights #tatarstan #chechnya #ichkeria #twitter #russian liberals #not all russians

[nonrussian]

Иллюстрации "Кукушка". Ненецкая сказка Illustrations "Cuckoo". Nenets fairy tale

Illustrator Kirill Ovchinnikov Иллюстратор Кирилл Овчиников. Из "Олешек-золотые рожки. Сказки народов Севера" 1968.

#non-russian #indigenous russian #indigenous russia #siberian people #Samodeic #Nenets #Ненцы #Nenets culture #Культура Ненцы

[thenuclearmallard]

Important read.

#indigenous #culture #indigenous russia #important #indigenous russian #fypシ #fypage #russia #colonization #landback #indigenous art #indigenous rights #indigenous people #indigenas #siberian music #siberia #siberian indigenous #indigenous siberian #siberian #native people #natives #nenets culture #nenet people #nenet #nenets #important post #russian colonization #russian imperialism #russian genocide #fypツ

[songs-of-the-east]

Homecoming: The Young Photographer Reconnecting with the Roots of Russia's Indigenous Mari People - Pictures by Dima Komarov

"Komarov took ​most of the portraits of the Mari in their traditional costumes in his native village. He also worked at the festival of Mari radio, where the celebrations and songs are held entirely in the Mari language. “There are many costumes for different purposes: for ceremonies, prayers, or weddings. All of the costumes have sophisticated, beautiful embroidery, symbols which can bring luck and good energy and ward off evil spirits. Almost every costume has the colour red. Men traditionally wear canvas shirts and trousers. Traditional jewellery for women, meanwhile, can weigh as much as 35kg,” he explains."

"Komarov’s visual study of Mari culture shows that there is no right or wrong way to relate to one’s heritage — it’s a journey not only across the physical landscape, but the landscape of your memories and emotions. “Every time I’m in my my native town and my grandma’s village, I feel endless love for my native culture and the places where I grew up,” he says. “Even though I sometimes feel like the culture is fading slowly, I hope that people who discover the new interest in Mari traditions will preserve and develop them.”

- Anastasiia Fedorova

#russia #mari #finno ugric #indigenous #maris #mari el republic #russians #volga #dima komarov

[gurorori]

haha oh no im definitely not at all disturbed by the prevalence of leftists on all platforms who are loudly 'anti-genocide' when it comes to the palestinian cause (and a couple others at best :3c) yet the only time ukraine [ʊkrɐˈjinɐ] leaves their mouths is in critique, in stark comparison to the former or in complaint about their (american) government sending aid.

at first what i saw often was pointing out the differences in western media framing [ukraine vs palestine], and that's fair (until the words and the agenda of western journalists are used to paint, as a whole, ukrainians who have been actively going through genocide as some kind of white supremacists hogging the blanket of global attention when they kinda just want to live and have the rights to their own land, culture, names and families)

but no one is even caring to do that anymore, today bitches just invent metaphorical scenarios and people to get mad at and to throw an entire ethnos away because wahhhh i decided that you care for X but not for Y!!!.... all while doing the exact thing they are condemning. the exact absolute same and they don't even hide it but do lack the self-awareness to realise

#'ohh i saw white people still go out to rally for ukraine' yeah have you considered they are ukrainian or have ukrainian loved ones or uh #simply have humanity in their heart to care about several humanitarian tragedies in the world? #this is both aimed at a post i saw on here and at SEVERAL. MANY. twitterians with a thousand palestine flags all over their accounts spewing #misinformation hate and sometimes straight up russian propaganda tactics because they're this fucking insane #i don't care about sounding nice anymore by the way. i know my heart lies in the right place and i have the capacity to care about more than #one ongoing genocide of indigenous peoples #removed incidents of bad actors having a ukrainian flag on their backpack doing hateful shit does not somehow okay dismissing a genocide you #so vehemently claim to oppose. they are not ukrainians who are getting bombed on the daily for years #i saw a very lovely 🍉🕊️ lady denying holodomor and using literal russian talking points while patting herself on the back for being such #a good person. i saw one of the most popular leftie accs on twitter be actively anti-ukraine and using slurs. luckily we mass reported them #and they're gone #i'm no longer being careful with my words because i don't want to be misconstrued. i know my values go beyond twitter and tumblr #if i catch you in any way undermining the genocide of ukrainians or only bringing it up to point fingers and bitch i am blocking you forever #don't care how far this post might go cuz of ppls questionable use of the search function. and i didn't care to censor anything #like. masks off. just block me if this is your rhetoric

[horpyna]

foreigners who are insisting that #notallrussians are evil and it's russophobic, xenophobic and racist(huh? since when is russian a race?) to hate them are telling on themselves with these claims.

you are not defending poor unfairly accused russians, you are defending yourself. bc you probably have more in common with those russians that you want to admit. i don't see people from Poland, or Lithuania, or Estonia, or Latvia etc. defending russians as often as frequently as germans, french or americans do. and that's pretty telling.

so here's friendly advice: next time you feel that ukrainians are being to harsh to russians and you feel the urge to remind them that not all russians are bad, stop for a moment and reflect on why do you feel the need to do this. might be an eye-opening experience. deal with your colonial complex yourself and stop projecting it on the victims of colonialism.

#ukraine #russian agression #russian war crimes #yesallrussians #also funny how they call it racist if you call out russians for their imperialistic mindset #but sleep on how indigenous non-slavic ethnic groups are being treated in russia by them russians

[sovietpostcards]

Otyken is a Siberian folk band that consists of members of Chulym, Ket and Selkup origin. And they’re on fire!! :)

#russian music #indigenous

[karamazovposting]

Considering tattoos became fashionable between European aristocrats in the late 19th century and Tsar Nicholas II himself had a massive dragon tattoo on his right arm (that he got done during a trip in Nagasaki in the early 1890s), it's not completely anachronistic to imagine Dmitri Karamazov as having one or multiple tattoos.

Do whatever you want with this information, I'm just saying.

#I feel the need to justify this knowledge of mine because I do hate monarchies but #I have many tattoos and I find the history of tattooing very interesting #many people think that back in the day in non-indigenous cultures tattoos were only a prisoners and sailors thing but no! #tattoos have always had artistic/spiritual/cultural value across the world and regardless of the time period #we have direct proof that humans have been getting tattoos since the Bronze Age how cool is that #anyway as for the tsar there are pictures of him with his sleeve rolled up where you can see the tattoo #and he talks about it in a diary of his #he said the tattooing session lasted from 9 pm to 4 am and while he liked the tattoo #he said going through that experience once discouraged him from ever getting tattooed again (lmao) #he wasn't the only tattooed member of the Russian royal family either #for some reason this piece of lore popped up in my mind again after years so here it is #the brothers karamazov #dmitri karamazov #mine

[yourdailyqueer]

Zemfira Ramazanova

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 26 August 1976  

Ethnicity: Volga Tatar

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Singer, songwriter, activist

Note: Though she performed a concert in Moscow on the day the Ukraine invasion began, she was reported to have left the country. She also released an anti-war music video to her 2017 song “Don’t Shoot”, while also removing all of her other songs from her YouTube channel.

#Zemfira #Zemfira Ramazanova #lesbianism #lgbt #lgbtq #female #lesbian #1976 #tatar #native #indigenous #russian #singer #songwriter #musician #activist #war tw #popular #popular post

[irithnova]

Painfully true

#Russia #Russian colonisation #Siberia #Indigenous Siberian #indigenous russia #Russian imperialism #The wildest thing I've heard is Russians attacking Buryats...In Buryatia #you cannot make this shit up