In Ukraine, they are trying to form the Siberia battalion, which will include representatives of ethnic minorities from russia. In particular, it will be Buryats who want independence for their ...

Buryats are an ethnic minority of Siberia whose population of around half a million largely follow a blend of Buddhism and shamanism. The Buryatia region has been hit hard by the Russian invasion ...

Members of the Siberian Battalion from the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Tuesday take part in a military training exercise outside Kyiv amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Siberia’s Walter Raleigh was an audacious Cossack called Yermak. ... pushing aside Mongolian Buryats, Turkic Yakuts, Samoyedic Nenets and other indigenous, or at least established, peoples.

Many were exiled to this part of Siberia and apparently found the bitter cold quite shocking. They learned methods of survival from the Buryats, a nomadic Asian people accustomed to the harsh climate.

Olmen resigned her high profile job in 1990 and went to live among the Buryats of southeastern Siberia-five time zones east of Moscow. “Russia fascinated me,” says Olmen, ...