Russia’s long-persecuted ethnic minorities — Buryats, Chechens, Yakuts — have seized upon the war in Ukraine to make a case for the independence of their own regions. They say the conflict has laid bare Russia’s violent and imperial mentality,not just in Eastern Europe, but within its own borders. Theo Merz reports.
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