aren't they the people who fully made a thing saying "GOYIM LIVES MATTER"?
anyway. i have stuff to do.
fuck it though it's time to talk about how russia's indigenous people exist in spite of and in defiance of the modern state.
here's a discussion of the russian colonization of poland that addresses the (really sucky) counterargument that because no one crossed water it actually can't be colonization (apparently one people make?? what the fuck??)
a whole book on stalin's genocides (pdf, epub)
Russia's Imperial Endeavor and Its Geopolitical Consequences, open access book post-2022
Colonizing Russia's Promised Land, open access book that explores the role of religion
The Touch of Civilization, a comparison of Russian and American colonization, open access
Minority Rights Group, which covers indigenous as well as non indigenous minorities, on the Russian Federation.
Discussion by Cultural Survival, an indigenous rights organization
On the Circassian Genocide: The Circassians - A Forgotten Genocide?, two-hundred-some-page book on it, an almost eight-hundred-page history in documents, discussion of Circassians in Israel
The Real Face of Russia, a 1967 book, has some information
Book on Crimean Tatar history, including their genocide and persecution by Russian/Soviet authorities
Chapter from Echoes of Empire: Memory, Identity, and the Legacy of Imperialism
Not in Our Name: Why Russia is not a Decolonial Ally or the Dark Side of Civilizational Communism and Imperialism
Imperialism, Supremacy, and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, paper
Okay, now I really have to get back to actual work, but tl;dr: do you really think Russia got this big without imperialism?