Volunteers counting Russia’s losses in the war in Ukraine have long pointed to the disproportionate numbers of ethnic minorities among the fallen soldiers. In addition to communities Indigenous ...

Many ethnic Germans found themselves deported during this time to Siberia and few came back. ... Message 1 - Russia's Germans in WWII Posted on: 17 August 2005 by Peter - WW2 Site Helper.

This was evident on a recent Tuesday, when AfD politicians hosted a meeting in the German parliament to shed light on the conditions facing so-called Russlanddeutschen, or Russian Germans — ethnic ...

Far-right activists from Russia’s largest nationalist movement, Russkaya Obshchina, donned black camouflage and patrolled multiple cities last month hunting for “ethnic criminals.” They ...

When Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, the Kremlin claimed that it was coming to aid ethnic Russians and Russian speakers in Ukraine. It stated that it would seek to take ...

Through research conducted between 2014 and 2017 in three of Russia’s ethnic republics (Buryatia, Karelia, and Tatarstan), Stewart examines the ways in which regional identity fits into the Kremlin’s ...

Despite worries about the loyalty of Estonia’s ethnic Russians, and occasional efforts by Moscow to inflame separatist tensions, the region’s much higher standard of living than in Russia, more ...

A mob in the Russian republic of Dagestan stormed runways looking for a flight carrying Jewish passengers. The episode highlighted the threat of ethnic strife in Russia.