There are not protests in Bashkiria, this is already a national liberation movement, – Yakovenko

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Mass riots in the Republic of Bashkortostan are gaining more and more global significance. After all, national minorities are gradually beginning to realize that they are dying for an empire that is alien to them.

About this 24 Channel said Russian opposition journalist Igor Yakovenko, noting that everything is just beginning for the Putin regime.

“There are not just local protests in Bashkiria, these are already national liberation movement. There is a structure: some are imprisoned, and some are in exile,” Yakovenko emphasized.

War is felt in remote regions of Russia

Russia's internal army is outnumbered and outgunned by the occupation army currently in Ukraine, but that's it for now. Of course, now the Putin regime has enough strength to crush any unarmed protest.

According to a Russian opposition journalist, one of the key moments of the protest in Bashkiria was the appeal to the Bashkirs who are now at war in Ukraine. The men were urged to return, because the real enemy is in their homeland.

This appeal will become widespread after some time. The fact is that the national surroundings are the fundamental source of replenishment for the occupying army. The chances of a Muscovite getting to the front are approximately 30–50 times less than for a person from Buryatia, Bashkiria, etc. If there is no war in Moscow yet, then in remote regions of Russia this war is felt, because the cemeteries are overcrowded, – said Yakovenko.

According to him, almost 400 thousand combat losses suffered aggressor country, are spread unevenly across Russia. There are none in Moscow or St. Petersburg, but there are many in the national environs. This is another evidence of the occupation regime.

Protests in Bashkiria: briefly

• 15 January in the Russian city of Baymak, people protested over the arrest of local activist Fail Alsinov. However, the security forces began to forcefully disperse the protesters, using batons and tear gas.
• Fail Alsinov is an environmental activist and the head of the Bashkort organization banned in Russia. He was sentenced to 4 years in a general regime colony on charges of extremism.
• On January 19, people gathered for a rally in Ufa. The spokesman for the Russian dictator, Dmitry Peskov, said that there are no mass riots or protests in Bashkiria, but only “individual manifestations that rather belong exclusively to the competence of local authorities and law enforcement agencies.”