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taron_baron t1_j5iw8zk wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in [OC] Ethnic Russians in the Russian Federation, 2021 Census by greensino

Meh it's not really about ethnicity here. It's just that these regions are complete backwaters, no one cares about the citizens not because of ethnicity, but just because they are underdeveloped. Rural ethnic Russians are drafted all the same, and state policy toward them isn't much different.

Meanwhile msk and spb are the centers of political power, so they need to maintain a calm population there.

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leela_martell t1_j5ixgl7 wrote

Sure. And the regions with ethnic minorities have some of the richest natural resources on the planet but the people are poor because the Russian federal government channels all the money into places like Moscow.

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Adventurous-Moose863 t1_j5j49wv wrote

It's kinda complicated. Some of them lack resources or have bad geography. This is how they were saved from Russian mass migration and are able to keep their ethnic identity. Regions like Chechnya, Dagestan or Tuva are heavily donated by the federal government.

Other regions are reach of resources and have good geography, but flooded by ethnic Russians. Ethnic minorities there are well off but suffer from assimilation. Their languages and culture are dying out.

It's a hard choice. Either you are reach, but everything you love is disappearing, or you are poor but keep going.

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taron_baron t1_j5jetuw wrote

See, it's not about them being minorities, it's about the rich and powerful vs. the poor and powerless.

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