Protests in ethnic minority region of Russia

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 18 Jan 2024 by Alex Teddy
On January 17 there were protests outside a courthouse in Bashkorostan when a local activist was given a 4-year sentence for spreading racial hatred. The police contained the protest only with difficulty and deployed 5 tear gas cannons. Scores of people were arrested. Some people were injured, but not gravely. Bashkorostan is the homeland of the Bashkir people. The Bashkirs are a Turkic Muslim people with their own language but they can all speak Russian, too. Bashkorostan is 1,100 k east of Moscow. Not everyone in the region is Bashkir. Half the people are ethnic Russians particularly in the regional capital of Ufa.  Bashkirs complain that they have been disproportionately drafted for the Ukraine War. There are many indigenous ethnic minority groups in Russia who are making the same complaint. They say that ethnic Russians are much less likely to be drafted. 

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