Russian Ethnic Minorities Bear The Brunt Of The Mobilization Of The War In Ukraine
But that changed in mid-September after Aleksey boarded a flight to his hometown of Ulan-Ude, the capital of the Republic of Buryatia, which is located around Lake Baikal in the Siberian region of Russia. (Alexei is not his real name; the CBC agreed to change his name to protect him from potential retaliation.) Aleksey was going on a short trip to visit friends and family he hadn’t seen since he moved to Moscow a few years ago....