2022 Russian Far East protests explained

With the beginning of mobilization in Russia, anti-war and anti-mobilization protests broke out in the Russian Far East, mostly performed by women.[1] Former Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj protested against usage of ethnic minorities such as the Buryats, Tuvans, and Kalmyks as cannon fodder,[2] and invited them to Mongolia.[3] The Tuvans belong to Turkic peoples but are also regarded in Mongolia as one of the Uriankhai peoples.[4]

Sakha

Women protested in Ordzhonikidze Square, in Yakutsk.[5] Some elderly men were conscripted by mistake.[6]

Buryatia

Small groups protested in Ulan-Ude under handwritten signs “No war! No mobilization!” and “Our husbands, fathers and brothers don’t want to kill other husbands and fathers.” [7] The Free Buryatia Foundation collects appeals for help from families of mobilised men.Alexandra Garmazhapova, president of the foundation, some local people try to go to Mongolia.[8]

Two fires were set in Salavat.[9]

Zabaykalsky Krai

Marina Salomatova, a member of the “Transbaikal Civil Solidarity”, has been arrested in Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai.[10] [11]

Tuva

Women protested against mobilization in Kyzyl, 20 of them were arrested.[12]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Williams . Daniel . 2022-09-28 . Women's power alive in benighted Iran, Afghan and Russia . 2023-06-26 . Asia Times . en-US.
  2. Web site: Mackinnon . Amy . 2022-09-23 . Russia Is Sending Its Ethnic Minorities to the Meat Grinder . 2023-06-26 . Foreign Policy . en-US.
  3. Web site: 2023-06-26 . Former Mongolian president urges ethnic minority to avoid fighting in Ukraine . 2023-06-26 . caliber.az . en.
  4. "Uriyangqad, which is the plural form of Uriyangqan, itself originally a plural of Uriyangqai."
    Book: KRUEGER, John . 1977. Tuvan Manual . 10. Which quotes from Henry Serruy's "The Mongols in China during the Hung-wu Period", Melanges chinois et bouddhiques, vol 11. pp. 282–283, Brussels 1959.
  5. Web site: Petrenko . Roman . 25 September 2022 . "No to genocide": women protest in Russian Yakutsk – asking for their men back . 2023-06-26 . Ukrainska Pravda . en.
  6. Web site: Yeung . Jessie . Pennington . Josh . 2022-09-26 . Protests erupt in Russia's Dagestan region as minorities say they are being targeted by Putin's mobilization orders . 2023-06-26 . CNN . en.
  7. Web site: 2022-09-21 . Over 1,300 Detained as Russians Protest Mobilization . 2023-06-26 . The Moscow Times . en.
  8. News: Light . Felix . 2022-09-24 . Russia's mobilization hits hard in poor, rural Buryatia . en . Reuters . live . registration . 2023-06-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221109212615/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/poor-rural-buryatia-russias-partial-mobilisation-hits-hard-2022-09-23/ . 9 November 2022.
  9. Web site: Konstantinov . Mark . 2022-09-25 . В Башкирии загорелся офис партии «Единая Россия» . 2023-06-26 . ufa1.ru – новости Уфы . ru.
  10. Web site: Anti-war protests resume in Russian cities, protestors arrested . 2023-06-26 . Meduza . en.
  11. Web site: 2022-09-26 . Mass Arrests in Russia during Nationwide Anti-War Mobilizations . 2023-06-26 . Left Voice . en-US.
  12. Web site: Tuva police arrest 20 anti-draft protesters after official says region's mobilization 'completed' . 2023-06-26 . Meduza . en.

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