‘This War Is a Vampire’: Buryat Activists Protest Ukraine Invasion

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
From her California home, quantum computer scientist Maria Vyushkova uses open-source information to track how many Russian soldiers from
Free Buryatia Foundation, Vyushkova analyzes social media posts, official statements and media reports about funerals to estimate the number
Buryat
That is 2.8%
one of the reasons for the establishment last month of the Free Buryatia Foundation, the first anti-war organization founded by members of a
regions, with average monthly salary of about 44,000 rubles ($571)
mainly Buryat emigres, although they have some volunteers inside Russia
condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the group provides legal advice to Buryat servicemen who do not want to fight, and monitors the
videos featuring Buryats criticizing the Russian invasion, Garmazhapova told The Moscow Times she got hundreds of messages of support from
across Russia, including the Buryat capital of Ulan-Ude as well as urban centers Moscow and St
The driver took her to the police station.While the group has counted almost 50 Buryats killed in Ukraine, a lack of official data about
in Ukraine since the beginning of the invasion, according to open-source research published this week by independent media outlet Mediazona
So far, about 20 people have contacted the foundation in connection with this issue.Many of the killed Buryat soldiers were university
Ulan-Ude decorated with the "Z" symbolizing support for the invasion
Petersburg metro because people could become aggressive
hundreds of insults and threats because of her ethnicity when she won the 2014 Mrs
St
to Buryatia