Anti-mobilization protests have also erupted in Tuva, the homeland of Sergei Shoigu, where the Russian defense minister is seen as a reincarnation of the 13th-century Mongol chieftain.

Anti-mobilization protests in the Tuva region of RussiaPhoto: video shooting

The video, shot in Kyzyl, the capital of this region in southern Siberia, shows law enforcement officers arresting several women who came out to protest against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s mobilization on September 21.

The BBC’s Frances Scarr points out that protests against the mobilization have also flared up in recent days in Yakutia and Dagestan, two other regions with significant numbers of ethnic minorities.

Commenting on the protests that took place earlier this week in Dagestan, journalist and researcher Kamil Galeyev from the Wilson Center noted that the mobilization ordered by Vladimir Putin is asymmetric: it is indeed partial in the large cities of western Russia, and total in the regions. with significant ethnic minorities and people from the Russian Far East.

However, Galeyev concluded that these demonstrations would not significantly affect Vladimir Putin’s regime and that most Russians would accept the registration of their relatives without protest.

Serhii Shoigu, who is considered a Mongol-Tuvan commander

In a major report conducted in Tuva and published in mid-September, Meduza investigative journalists noted that the region, one of the most isolated in Russia, surpassed Dagestan and Buryatia in casualties recorded in the war unleashed by Vladimir Putin at the end. February

In absolute numbers, the largest number of Russian soldiers who died in Ukraine still come from Dagestan, but the population of Tuva is 10 times smaller. Per capita, the Siberian republic lost 3 times more soldiers than the Caucasian republic.

An important difference between Tuva and other federal republics of Russia, where there are national minorities, is that ethnic Russians are actually a minority here. According to the most recent census in 2010, Russians make up only 16% of Tuva’s population, compared to 80% in Khakassia and 66% in Bureti.

And Serhii Shoigu, whose father is an ethnic Tuvan, remains a source of great pride for many Tuvans, as he is perceived as the reincarnation of Subotai, the chief strategist and general of Genghis Khan, whom the Tuvans see as the reincarnation of Volodymyr Putna.

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