Leyla Latypova - Russia's War has Taken a Much Higher Toll on Minorities than Ethnic Russians 

Leyla Latypova and Jonathan, thank you for sharing an informative, thought-provoking and for me educative conversation with us. I hope to see Leyla return to Silicon Curtain at some point in the future. From Scandinavia, my wishes and support for all ethnic minorities in russia who wish freedom from the shackles of Muscovy, and to all who support Ukraine and their defense against the brutal imperialistic invasion and war of conquest. For freedom and Democracy!

Thank you, Jonathan and Leyla. This is very interesting. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

Thank you Jonathan, for this interview with Leyla Latypova, Another peek at the Russian mir. I am disgusted by the blatant, systematic racism and discrimination by Moscovites. Imperial Moscow's colonialism, exploitation, deportation, relocation, ethnic cleansing in the east may be nearing its culmination. USA arm Ukraine! Slava Ukraini

This idea that the collapse of the RF would lead to chaos is odd. There is a history of local government institutions and as shown by the breakup of the USSR, there was a peaceful division of the armed forces facilities and equipment. Providing our governments stop seeing the russian world through moscows eyes and perspective.

Leyla, I wish you luck, the path to independence is full of rocks and changes often.

The ethnics must be poor in Russia as Putin has all their money 😅😅😅

The concert hall story is on all the media feeds at this moment. Quite a dramatic development. Thanks, Jonathan.

Fascinating interview. Thanks to you both.

"Britain had an empire: Russia is an empire" - Geoffrey Hosking. Russia is not a federation but an empire. In many ways the Russian empire resembles the Austro-Hungarian Empire - multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, with implied hierarchic superiority of Austrian and Hungarian ethnicity superseding that of the peripheral ethnicities. How long can this inequality last? it was Serbian nationalism that put the skids under the Austro-Hungarian empire and it was extinguished in 1918. Today, there is little trace of that empire. What will happen to the Russian empire I wonder?

Great interview! Thank you, Jonathan and Leyla!

The speaker mentions limestone as an important raw material. It is more important than she may have suggested. It is, together with clay, the essential component of concrete. It is also important in removing acid pollution from power station emissions, though I doubt if Putin's Russia puts much store by ensuring high levels of air quality. Agriculture is another user.

It would be great if the next video analyzes what happened with the 8 direct missiles to one of Ukraine's largest energy plants on the Dniprodam, leaving a huge region without power and energy. So many more affected than at that Moscow concert and happened at the same time. Also, the concert business is over but thd rockets and drones are relentless over Ukraine. That news media are silent on that is so repellent.

Also, is this not how the Han Chinese deal with their ethnic minorities, especially the Uyghurs?

Alright Arthur, good guest. Slava Ukraini! 🇨🇦🇺🇦

ThNk you ! Slava Ukraine !

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excellent interview, thanks Jonathan. I've been following this aspect of mobilising citizens by stealth, and -krmln perceived - degree of disposability. The level of poverty and desperation dealt out according to ethnicity and region is a very valuable tool in maintaining divisions and racial tension. I get so annoyed when I see jokes and memes (made by non Ukrainians, from conflict free countries) about the fate of these people on the front lines, and their families back home. It should be a humbling example of inequality, and a motivator to look at our own societies. We're all an🍊dictator away from the enforcement of these extreme divisions, and further regression.

Salam Bashkortstan

interesting, thanks

Thank you, Jonathan, for this very interesting conversation with Leyla Latypova 🇺🇦 Перемоги і миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦

Another amazing guest and interview, thanks ❤

Thank you for your support

When comes to trying to blame ethnic minorities for brutality and war crimes, I can tell that especially Mongolians are actually nice and friendly people these days. In spite being under strong influence of the Chinese, their country is surprisingly liberal and the leaders truly care about their people. What I've seen and read so far points at a rather harmonic society, where the root for this 'harmony' is not enforced from the top (like in China) but is coming from the people itself.

This was an extraordinarily interesting episode for me. I was aware of some of the central government's issues with it's ethnic minorities, i.e. that they exist and a second class citizens because of being ethnic, but i was unaware quite how complacated it could be. I knew that Russia is organised almost in a smoke and mirrors way but not to the extent it has been used to pull the wool over the populations eyes and the population has accepted this.

What a great interview and perspective

Great guest, very informative

She is very charming and intelligent. I certainly hope they can break free from the Kremlin's control!

Simple question for Leyla, what kind of a democracy does she see for Bashk if left to their own devices? Pakistan, Turkey, Sweden?

Very low morale in the Russian military

There are no ethnic Russians in Muscovy whatsoever, all of them are ethnic minorities such as the Vepsians, Mordvins, Udmurts, Bashkirs, Kalmyks, Buryats and other Finnish, Turkic, Uralic or Altaic peoples subjugated by Muscovy. Putin is Vepsian, Shoygu is Tuvan, Sobyanin is Mansi, Naryshkin is Tatar, Patrushev is Mari, Gundyaev is Mordvin and so on ad infinitum, no single Muscovite is ethnic Russian.

I randomly met a person in Taunton on the street .... from Bashkortostan - seemed no different to all Russians and no accent that I could detect

Please drop the "you knows", Leyla. It's just a verbal tick but it gets hard to hear the narrative when it's interrupted so often. That apart I found this discussion informative and original.

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21st century Russia reminds me of the English when they had an Empire in the 19th century.

Interesting. Russia hasn't been good for many of the indigenous peoples of Russia.

How many Russian ethnic Tartars actually were descendants of Tartars forcibly sent from Crimea?

The American left bangs on about indigenous people but where are they for the people in Russia?

Putin must be the most hated man in the world right now which is going to cost him dearly, which is indeed now costing him dear....

Putin is a very strong believer in Diversity Equity and Inclusion. He is giving all the ethnic minorities of the Russian Federation a special opportunity to die first for his war. As he said back in 2022 when speaking to his troops: “many of you will die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make” 😂😂😂😂

Isn't it soon time we admitted capitalism plays a part in the functioning of this war? I mean the abuses of capitalism, not necessarily capitalism as an idea on paper, because all ideas on paper have idealistic aims, in reality the form in which what is on paper turns out can be very far removed from the idea of a freedom and democracy being inherent traits of private control of the means of economic production? In the period around the Second War, a young Margaret Thatcher was deeply inspired by the book ''the Road to Serfdom'' by F. A. Hayek. In it, the Austrian economist warned of central government power in economic matters. However, the very act of harsh privatisation since the 1990s, hasn't let to less government power in economic matters, but the exact opposite of what she said her type of politics tried to get at - since the high level of privatisation has only been bolstered by a more authoritarin type of government support of it - whether it be the way that many Americans got no say in the 2011 bail-out plan of tax payer money to Wall St - or the way Russians got no say in the very government's use of corrupt oligarchs as easier to get closer to it than not.

I dont believe for one second that Buryat and Bashor men didnt know they would be occupying Ukrainian lands & killing Ukrainians once the war started. There are videos of them hyping themselves up before battle.

To many Tartars and Mongolians are interchangeable. So gruops of Tarttars are light skinned red-heads .

06:33 March of 25 until 28 was 1949 in Estonia they send not only mens but even 3 year old child and womens to Siberian camps GULAG

I’ve heard a lot about this demography, but not much about intent or rationale. I get the political expediency of using ethnic minorities from remote republics, but that hardly fits the criteria of genocide. Anybody have more nefarious theories?

У нее что статистика из министерства обороны есть?😂 Она знает что армия России это по большей части добровольцы.💪🇷🇺

I've come to accept that a true mastery of foreign language comes with the most annoying and pervasive use of filler words. No shade on Leyla, she's great, it's just a bit hard to listen to.

Just to be pedantic, ethnic Russians *are* the minority in the RF. And that demographic is terminal at this point.

Russian colonialist system

Russian-ethnic people are indigenous.. Many Tatars are not indigenous in many parts of Eurasia.

They have moved around people over there so much that the people themselves don't probably know their origin. Like now the majority living in my homeland Karelia are from Ukraine and Belarus thinking they are Russians... Like Kola, Karelia and Ingria need to be returned. Yes the peopl not belonging there have to move, like you didn't ask my grandmother if she wanted to flee in just her clothes on her back so at least I would give you the chance to pack your things and leave.

A ring at the end of the nose always reminds me of Edward Lear and his Piggy-wig.

Выглядит как на рекламе бьюти продукции...с таким слащавым выражением лица и широкой улыбкой говорить о геноциде ...

She's so cute... i want her

Eewww. It sounds more like a corrupted language that should have been forgotten in the store age

The lady in the video is lying through her teeth! I am from Bashkortostan, and all the Bashkort people are in the National Parliament called Kurultai. They speak their native language, they practice their native culture, they read their native prose. In fact, there are 2 required classes in the Russian schools: The History of Bashkortostan and the Culture of Bashkortostan. People of other nationalities are invited to learn Bashkort or Tatar if they wish. I never had the time to study Bashkort, but I took traditional Bashkort dance as an elective. The lady in the video is lying and complaining about the situation in Bashkortostan, but what alternative does she offer? Would she like to move Bashkorts to the reservations, as they did it in the US? Or would she like (God forbid) to get rid of them entirely as the British did to the Aborigines in Australia? The man who is encouraging her is a Brit - not a very good source to ask advice from when it comes to the native populations. The genocidal British Empire has gotten rid of entire native populations in its quest for money, power and more lands! Isn't it what it is trying to do now in my native Bashkortostan?

Advice to the Brit on the channel - instead of worrying about what Vladimir Putin is doing, worry about Boris Johnson. And get him a comb, please!

The entire area, yes the entire area of today's Russia was once Ural Altaic land with at most 1 Slavic person that got lost hunting. They have been replacing the native cultures and languages since the day the first Slavic person came there. After the Mongol Horde they really started to push for removing the other cultures&languages and it still continues today. Like yes we can put some on history that this is how history happened in many parts but for what has been going on for the last 100 years can not be put on history because you whine like little girls about Hitler but you aid Stalin because he used death work camp instead of just death camps.... You others have been accepting the Slavs exterminating the Uralic group, the Altaic side is pretty strong still but just because Scottish and English are germanic they aint the same or Danes compared to Norwegians so my point is that culture is getting erased in our modern world and you react now that its Slavic people trying to take other Slavic people. Better late than never but don't think its a new thing because you can read on the internet even about groups trying to reach out and there is even a documentary of one culture that will die during my lifetime because they are so few left. Ukraine can hold on for years upon years against the Kremlin but the minorities are sent to the slaughter to Ukraine so we should fix the issue at the root of the problem and not try to help Ukraine be the meatgrinder for the minorities. Yes I am saying that we should go in and stop the Kremlin brainwash to save the last ones, yes they will be so confused that they probably think we are the evil ones but if we don't act now then there will not be any cultures to save in 100 years when maybe the Slavic Russian's manages to stop their urge to exterminate others and make up their own version of history. Just today I argued with one that really thinks that the Russian Empire saved Finland from Sweden cruelty, when reality is that Sweden did more good than bad over here even if they were the "rich/nobles". Russia again tried to remove our culture and language but that was probably to protect us and not because they wanted us gone... Still that person was so sure about them being the saviours of Finland, like why did they steal Karelia if we saw them as saviours, how do their brains compute. What about the Ingrians and all the other Finno Ugric tribes around the Muscovy/St. Peterburg area, saved from their culture and language?!? All the Uralic languages and cultures from the Baltic seas to the Pacific, also saved from themselves or was the polar bears going to invade from the north so they need to convert to Slavic to be safe?!? The insanity among the Russians still surprises me today and I have been arguing with em for 25+ years of my life.

My mum says only bulls have rings in their nose