Forty years in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot.
In 1978, Soviet scientists stumbled upon a family living in a remote part of Russia.
They hadn’t interacted with outsiders for decades.
Almost half a century later, one of them is still there.
2) Many Russian-speakers that are technically #Russian ethnically, never identified with the #Muscovy / #Empire. Whole sub-ethnicities were persecuted and ran from it (think #OldBelievers, #Molokans, #Dukhobors, #Pomors, #Novgorod, you name it).
Inspired by this recent thread by Galeev that is surprisingly not bad, and shares some telling and in my opinion representative stories about defending his own #Tatar identity:
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1601601620181422081
“National Divorce: Q and A In this thread I am going to cover some of the more common misconceptions about the current state of affairs in Russia and potential scenarios of its breakup. I am going to start with the most common objection: "Isn't Russia like 80% ethnic Russian?"🧵”
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