North Asia

Some Cossack groups claim their own entity independent of Moscow. The risk of disintegration is one of the effects of the Russian war on Ukraine. The first attempts at a Cossack state after the Bolshevik revolution. Difficult to determine how many people belong to the community.

The team that participated in the European Championships consisted only of refugees from Chechnya. They fled with their families at the time of the Putin war against Chechen separatists. It is now normal in sports for national teams to be multi-ethnic. Moscow attacks.

For years he denied being the founder and commander of the "Wagner Company," which he now glorifies as the "best army in the world." His biography - from prison to catering to today's railings against the rest of the Kremlin elite - is a synthesis of late and post-Soviet history.

Russia and the United States are the main movers. Real parliamentary opposition is unlikely to emerge. Moscow claims rights over Russian-speaking regions in northern Kazakhstan. Ethnic hostility actually favours the stability of Tokaev's power.

The Ukrainian authorities had ordered the expulsion of monks loyal to the Moscow Patriarchate. Kiev wants the Moscow jurisdiction to step aside. The 'Lavra' is the oldest monastic institution of Russian Orthodoxy. Its fate tied to the outcome of the bloody Russian invasion.

The minority in the country counts 4.7 million individuals: in 2010 there were 5.3 million. Also declining in the original regions. Ethnic Russians in Tatarstan are growing. Use was made of the pandemic to readjust statistics less liked by the Kremlin. Government: next data will be secret.

In an incautious shift, Soviet women, once the vanguard of world feminism, have morphed into today’s “heroic mothers”, worthy of prizes awarded by Putin in the Kremlin. However, the myth of the mother has become a casualty of the war, that of the Russian woman who takes care of the whole family and all the people, taking on the burden of suffering and humiliation, like Solzhenitsyn's Matryona, soul of the entire village of the persecuted.

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Today's headlines: emergency landing in Nepal for a Shree Airlines plane; for Women's Day, the Pyongyang regime calls for more children for the army; three more Palestinian victims today in the West Bank from an Israeli raid. More than 14,000 Protestant Christians attend Spring Love Festival in Vietnam; more and more Japanese companies leave Russia.

Street protests against the passing of the law on 'foreign agents'. Proceedings suspended for the time being. Opponents condemn the pro-Russian line of the incumbent Georgian Dream government. The measure moves the country away from EU membership. The burden of the Russian war on Ukraine. The crisis could worsen.

Proposal submitted by journalist Maksim Kuzakhmetov, in exile in Prague. A consequence of the possible defeat in Ukraine. Like post-Nazi Germany, the country must accept international control for a certain period. 'Moscow-centric' opposition disagree.