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• Today, however, Sulyandziga, 61, and his family members continue to be harassed by the Russian government.
• Beyond repression at home, the Russian government is increasingly trying to silence activists like Sulyandziga even after they leave Russia.
• This kind of harassment is called transnational repression, and it means that Indigenous activists are vulnerable in exile as well as at home.

Indigenous people of Russia

• Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia has legally recognized 47 Indigenous peoples, though more than 150 groups claim Indigenous status.
• There was a flowering of Indigenous activism in Russia during the more open politics of the 1990s.
• But Indigenous peoples remain among the most socially and economically marginalized groups in Russia.

Indigenous activism and Russia’s war in Ukraine

• Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has created new problems for Indigenous communities in Russia.
• Driven by poverty and patriotic appeals, young men from Indigenous communities enlist in the military in disproportionately high numbers.
• Some Indigenous exiles have exercised their new freedoms by protesting Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The Russian government’s pressure on Indigenous people

• The Russian government uses the tools of transnational repression against Indigenous activists who have left Russia.
• These include damaging activists’ reputations in media coverage, initiating spurious legal cases, confiscating their property and harassing relatives and colleagues who remain in Russia.
• Ruslan Gabbasov, an activist from the Bashkir ethnic minority in the Russian region of Bashkortostan, left his homeland in 2021 due to increasing pressure on his activism.

A foreign policy concern

• These anti-war groups compare Russia’s violence toward Ukrainians with their own histories of oppression and call for decolonization in the region.
• Repression also is designed to drive a wedge between Indigenous communities in Russia and activists abroad who maintain connections via online platforms such as Telegram.
• The Russian government had labeled his original organization a foreign agent, even before he fled to the U.S.
• Pavel Sulyandziga, president of the Batani International Indigenous Fund for Solidarity and Development and visiting scholar at Dartmouth College, contributed to this article.

Laura A. Henry does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

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