PSCRP-BESA Reports No 125 (April 18, 2025)
According to official data from the 2021 census, of the five largest national minorities in the Russian Federation—each numbering over one million—four are traditionally Sunni Muslim peoples: Tatars (4.7 million), Chechens (1.7 million), …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 121 (March 25, 2025)
Saransk, the capital of the Republic of Mordovia, with a population of just over 300,000, is a provincial city by Russian standards. Most Russians know very little about the ethnic challenges facing Mordovia. …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 120 (March 18, 2025)
Belarus is the only post-Soviet country whose national language has been losing its positions over the decades that followed the collapse of the USSR. At the same time, it is the only post-Soviet …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 116 (March 1, 2025)
A year and a half ago, in the summer of 2023, a forum titled “Yakutia and the Provinces of China: Sister-City Relations for Strengthening Russian-Chinese Relations” was held in Yakutsk, the capital of …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 112 (Jan 30, 2025)
Karelia is the only republic within the Russian Federation where Russian is the only state language, while the local language is deprived of any status, whether formal or not. The reason for this …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 110 (Jan 20, 2025)
Over the centuries, the Russian state expanded its ethnic base through the assimilation of Finno-Ugric peoples, the indigenous population of the north of the European part of the present-day Russian Federation and Western …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 100 (Nov 28, 2024)
In the first decade of independence, Ukraine was quite distinctly divided into a number of regions, which differed greatly from each other in terms of ethno-identification and linguistic composition:
1. Western Ukraine: oblasts …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 89 (Oct 16, 2024)
Introduction
The history of Jews in Ukraine dates back more than two millennia, starting with the Jewish community that existed in the Greek colony of Panticapaeum, in what is now the town of …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 87 (Oct 4, 2024)
On September 18, official Russian media reported about a shooting in the heart of the Russian capital, near the head office of Wildberries, Russia’s largest online marketplace. Video footage of the incident instantly …
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 82 (Sept 13, 2024)
The Russian Federation is a federation in name only. This goes without saying, but it would be appropriate to cite a few facts supporting this assertion. At the initiative of President Vladimir Putin, …
