Tatar from Bashqortostan 🐝 | Journalist & political analyst | Changing the way you think of Russia by amplifying voices from ethnic republics and Indigenous communities ✊🏽 | https://linktr.ee/latypovaleylahttps://bsky.app/profile/leylalatypova.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/leylalatypova.bsky.social/post/3lkq2igpegc2vThe looming shutdown of RFE/RL’s Russian bureau is likely to be acutely felt by millions of Russians in the country’s ethnic republics and regions. Journalists who spoke to me described it as a “foolish decision” and an outright “catastrophe”. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/19/for-russias-regional-journalism-rferls-closure-a-catastrophe-a8839919 Mar 2025 11:13 +0000at://did:plc:f64naar2w5x2inz2at75ggo7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkq2igpegc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/leylalatypova.bsky.social/post/3liw6gkvidc2h🇷🇺 invasion has cost 🇺🇦 thousands of lives and unmeasurable devastation. In 🇷🇺, the scars of the war might not be visible to the naked eye, but it sure has changed the nation forever. From Kursk to Moscow to Bashkortostan to Tyva, we tried to paint its portrait https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/24/portrait-of-a-nation-how-ordinary-russians-lives-have-changed-in-3-years-of-war-a8810724 Feb 2025 10:49 +0000at://did:plc:f64naar2w5x2inz2at75ggo7/app.bsky.feed.post/3liw6gkvidc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/leylalatypova.bsky.social/post/3liozvf7ywc2fTo mark UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day, I dove into how the Kremlin's policies facilitate the erasure of Indigenous languages across 🇷🇺. "Sometimes I imagine how my grandchildren might no longer know Bashkir…It is terrifying,” one mother told me. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/21/for-indigenous-families-in-russia-keeping-language-alive-is-an-impossible-task-a8809721 Feb 2025 14:39 +0000at://did:plc:f64naar2w5x2inz2at75ggo7/app.bsky.feed.post/3liozvf7ywc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/leylalatypova.bsky.social/post/3liopdwstok2jThe Kremlin might have found a new ally in Trump, but things have not been going so smoothly for Moscow in the Caucasus. Relations between 🇷🇺 and 🇦🇿 have been deteriorating since December. Read more about this rift and its implications in my latest: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/19/unusually-public-crisis-how-a-plane-crash-is-driving-russia-and-azerbaijan-apart-a8804921 Feb 2025 11:31 +0000at://did:plc:f64naar2w5x2inz2at75ggo7/app.bsky.feed.post/3liopdwstok2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/leylalatypova.bsky.social/post/3lhjn44isnk2fIndigenous knowledge is priceless. And it seems that’s exactly why so many institutions, scholars and policy actors in a position of privilege consistently want to receive it for free (and tick a diversity box while leaving out inconvenient details).06 Feb 2025 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:f64naar2w5x2inz2at75ggo7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhjn44isnk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/leylalatypova.bsky.social/post/3lhgiwwtlfd2oWe are expanding The Moscow Times' groundbreaking Women Against the Kremlin series with interviews with some incredibly inspiring female Indigenous activists who are fighting not just the Putin regime but injustices ingrained in the very fabric of the country's society05 Feb 2025 11:50 +0000at://did:plc:f64naar2w5x2inz2at75ggo7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhgiwwtlfd2o