Ethnic minorities in Russia are campaigning for the breakup of the country
by Theo Merz from The World: Latest Stories on (#6BVZY)
Russia's long persecuted ethnic minorities - Buryats, Chechens and Yakuts - have seized on 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.