Population Decline in Russia's Small Indigenous Groups Continues & Report

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ethnic minorities, 47 of these have been given special status for their small size, collectively making up less than 0.001% of the
military service, that option does not apply during mobilization."If losses in war affect large ethnic groups for dozens of generations and
two young members die in the war, then two families will cease to exist," Berezehkov added, telling iStories that over 100 members of
rates between different ethnic groups among Russian servicemen in Ukraine
Bessudov found that a soldier from the Republic of Buryatia in the Russian Far East was 100 times more likely to die at war in Ukraine than
the exodus of Western businesses from the country
Russian government has cut the already-small governmental support for its indigenous peoples by 10%, according to the draft federal
budget."Ethnic activists say that the authorities are purposefully destroying these peoples, conscripting as many of them as possible to the
war," Berezhkov told iStories, adding that "it may have to do with the fact that indigenous peoples live in poor places ..
and they believe the authorities that they can make money from the war."