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  • Hey everybody, so as you know, we're working on the next few episodes, so that means this is a filler week

  • This one has actually brought to you by a new sponsor Squarespace. Yeah, you've probably heard of them

  • They've actually reached out and they want to help us out. So thank you Squarespace. We'll talk about that more later

  • So as you know last time I did the states of India and I asked you guys what country would you like me to do?

  • administrative divisions next and a lot of you said Russia

  • The problem is the Russian Federation is broken down into eighty-five federal subjects into five different categories

  • We don't really have a lot of time for eighty-five anything on geography now

  • however

  • we do have enough time to cover one of the categories the

  • Republics of Russia for those of you that don't know much about Russia

  • It is actually a very diverse country with lots of different types of people living in it. Not just Russians

  • The Republic's are kind of like the non Russian ethnic enclaves that have their own level of administration

  • these subjects have the right to establish their own language and

  • Constitution the other subjects don't have these rights today

  • There are 22 of them and I will try my best to explain here we go

  • The first one at the gaya capital Michael a minority group represented the ad to gay people

  • They are one of the twelve Circassian tribes and they are one of the three

  • Federal subjects that have Circassian people as their minority group they even use the circassian flag as their republic flag culturally

  • They are mountain folk. They have a series of traditions and customs they love playing music with those shiping violins that look like daggers

  • They have these really interesting traditional dances where they like go on their toes. It looks kind of painful they have these

  • hawlucha

  • Ruiz with cheese in them. There's a lot of ancient tradition here like they still have these table stone house things

  • Nobody quite knows exactly what they are some say that their tombs under tradition a groom is never supposed to meet his bride

  • parents insert offensive joke here the Altai Republic capital Coronel Altai

  • So minority group represented the Altai who are a Turkic group the Altai people come from ten different clans

  • There's a UNESCO heritage site that can be found here

  • The Koch plateau has these interesting stone structures that are believed to be burial sites

  • But some people say that they're like magnetic instruments that direct the cosmic energy of the universe. Yeah

  • There's a lot of new-age tourism in this area

  • It's also the place where they found the Siberian ice made in the I mean that was preserved in permafrost

  • Bashkortostan capital is oofah minority group represented the bosch skiers

  • This is the most populated republic out of all the Republic's it was the first ethnic autonomous area established in 1917

  • They come from the oral mountains and their flag even has the quraysh hour

  • It has seven petals representing the seven families that gave birth to the Bosch gear people's music is huge here

  • They even make woodwind flutes by chopping up Reed's from the core

  • I plant a capital city has a huge monument dedicated to this guy

  • He's like considered their hero further out east

  • Bharatiya Capital Rulon O'Day ethnic minority represented by about 30 percent of the population the boutots. They are a

  • mongolic people group who are actually related to the Mongols and the

  • Comics this Republic is right next to Lake Baikal Russia's largest and deepest lake in the world because of that

  • They're not allowed to really industrialize their area because they don't want to pollute the lake. It's so important culturally speaking

  • It's very interesting because they kind of like fuse Buddhism with shamanism. They have unique traditions like bone fortune-telling

  • They also have great hot springs supposedly the waters can heal you from like anything and everything

  • Now the next one you may have heard in the news a few times Chechnya capital Grozny

  • Obviously the minority group represented are the Chechen people at about 95 percent and they are the lowest alcohol drinking region of Russia

  • partially because of the Islam thing basically when Russia came in stalin got suspicious and exiled a lot of them to

  • Kazakhstan and then he brought them back and then in the 90s, they tried to declare independence, but then Russia was like, nope

  • And that's where the subsequent Chechen wars began. There's a series of separatist movements and terrorist attacks and to this day

  • It's kind of died down but the separatist activities still kind of lingers

  • It's like it could ignite if someone pushes the buttons, but right now it's kind of like kind of standstill

  • I mean the people just want to live their lives like normal. Otherwise though, they actually have very beautiful scenery

  • I mean if you're one of those like controversy region tourists, then this might you might want to put this on your bucket list

  • Chuvashia capital Cheboksary minority group represented at about two-thirds of the population the chuvash known as the silver people chuvash

  • People are kind of like the strange

  • outcasts cousins of the Turkic groups because their language is the most isolated and kind

  • Difficult for the other ones to understand it's kind of like the Icelandic of Turkic languages

  • But if there's one thing this place is famous for it has to be beer everybody knows, Chivas

  • Jia makes beer many households brew their own version and they add their own little secret

  • Ingredients and they have all these nice little happy songs and dances that go with it next one

  • Get ready because this has a lot of controversy if you're Ukrainian, you're not gonna like hearing this

  • But I kind of have to cover it Crimea capital Simferopol, which is also a federal city represented minority group being the Crimean Tatars

  • Who only make up about 12% of the population they used to be the majority?

  • But then again in former USSR times, they were exiled to who's becca stan, and then some of them were allowed to come back

  • However today the majority of the population is Russian. This is the largest dispute area with Russia and Ukraine today

  • basically

  • this whole area used to be under complete Ukrainian Authority then in 2014 a bunch of

  • Pro-russian separatists and the Russian military got involved and they issued a take over most countries across the world

  • Do not recognize this as a part of Russia, but it kind of operates in functions under Russian Authority today

  • It's really confusing also

  • it's kind of like a very geographically advantageous location as it kind of gives access to the Black Sea and then further to the

  • Mediterranean but yeah a hotbed of dispute

  • Oh, and there's ancient Greek sites over here as well because lots of history Dagestan the Gateway to the Caucasus capital

  • Makhachkala the minority group represented

  • There's actually not a single one, but it's kind of like 10 main minority groups largest ones being the Caucasian groups

  • the Avadh is darkins and there's also the Turkic ku mix and

  • Azerbaijanis overall over a hundred nationalities and over 30 languages are spoken in this area

  • It is the most racially diverse region in all of Russia about 80% of the population identifies as Muslim

  • The land has lots of beautiful mountains and forests and fortresses you come here chances are you will definitely find a burqa

  • Overcoat not burka bucha, the people here love to dance with daggers recently

  • Just like in Chechnya in 2008 and 2012

  • There was kind of like a wave of guerrilla warfare that was going on the Russian government got involved

  • It got kind of messy

  • But yeah

  • it's interesting because there's like so many different people groups and it's just they all have their own little story here in goosh area the

  • Smallest of all the federal subjects in Russia capital macaws minority group and it being the English. They are very similar to the Chechens

  • They're like the little brother of the Chechens and they speak almost the same language and their majority of them are Muslim back in World

  • War two time Stalin deported a lot of them to Kazakhstan and then when they were allowed to come back they realized a lot of

  • The Audion people took over what they claimed to be their land and there was a lot of internal conflict

  • Culturally today a lot of them. Don't really quite know the

  • Extent of their history since a lot of it depended on oral tradition and songs and just a heads up

  • This is probably one of the most poorest regions of all of Russia. And if you go there will be a lot of security

  • Checkpoints if you're a man, it's not really recommended that you grow a beard because you might be mistaken for an English rebel

  • I mean you guys have seen me with facial hair. So I'm I think I'll be good Cobb Rd

  • no bulk area capital Nalchik two main groups populate most of this area at about seventy percent copper today, who are

  • Circassians just like the other ones we talked about and the bulk of whom are Kipchak Turkic out of all the twelve

  • Circassian tribes the combat they are the largest ones and even though the majority of them identify as Muslim

  • There's still like about 12% that still kind of practiced the traditional hobbsy faith

  • It involves a lot of nature stuff and spirits land has beautiful gorges and hills and the tallest peak in all of Russia and Europe

  • If you consider it Europe people here are also known for being quite athletic

  • This guy won the first gold for Russia in the Rio Olympics

  • Kalmykia capital at least a minority group represented the comics who make up about 60% of the population

  • This is probably the strangest demographic anomaly in all of Russia

  • Why because kalmyks are the westernmost?

  • buddhist community in the entire world and they are the only region in all of Europe in which

  • Buddhism is the majority religion today

  • You can see traditional Buddhist temples all over the capital at least according to tradition their ancestors the koi rots

  • Migrated from Central Asia to find better land or maybe they try to escape from the Mongol tribes

  • Nobody really quite knows but the point is they came here and brought Buddhism

  • orally

  • the Russians made a lot of deals with them and then they deported them and then they brought them back and

  • Today, it looks really Buddhist the Russian Qatar ChaCha cassia capital chair kiss just like coppertino ball, Korea

  • They have two main groups the Turkic Connor Kai peoples and the circassian Turkish people's just like kabardino-balkaria

  • A portion of the population here still actually kind of maintains the ancient Circassian religions the people here love horse riding

  • There's also like a rite of passage

  • Like boys to becoming men when they're 9 years old like they have to get a whip from their father or grandfather

  • and ride the horse with that whip Corellia capital patrols votes minority group represented the karelians who are the lowest

  • Minority group in a republic at less than 10% The karelians are some of the last few remaining

  • Uralic peoples on the planet and they are the cousins of Finnish people. They speak a language. That is very similar

  • Some people say it's just a dialect of Finnish. However, unfortunately,

  • unless a

  • revival happens the future of the Karelian language and culture is

  • Looking kind of bleak and it's kind of dying out and even though this is the Russian Federation flag

  • The Karelian people have their own Karelian flag, which looks like this. They're known for making these really cool like egg pie

  • It's called Karelian pie, but it's like a pastry. It's really good. It's really good Takashi

  • Yeah

  • Capital Abakan minority group represented the cut costs most scholars agree that they are most likely related to the qgs people in

  • kyrgyzstan

  • The cool thing though is that this place was kind of like the crossroads where a lot of people passed through in ancient times

  • So it's kind of labeled as Siberia's archaeological Mecca. There's so many ancient sites found here

  • You have things like stones and obelisks

  • Ruined cities forts and rock drawings and they have that 7 story tall burial mound the Komi Republic capital

  • Six Evod, I don't even know at this point minority group represented to call me at about a quarter of the population

  • Call me is like the Ural Mountains

  • Capital it offers some of the best tourism for the dividing range

  • They have the virgin call me forest a UNESCO heritage site and this National Park, which is beautiful

  • They also kind of have a history of hosting some of the most brutal gulags in all of Russian history

  • But the forests are nice they have their own food and they have their own traditions based off of pre-christian shamanism

  • And they still kind of keep those traditions alive a little bit the madhuri el Republic capital

  • Yoshkar-ola minority group represented the Mari located in the Volga territory

  • The Madhuri people are kind of called like Europe's last pagans

  • These people actually do keep a lot of the pre-christian pagan traditions alive

  • It's kind of like what Russia used to look like before?

  • Christianity came in half of all the women know how to play the goose Lee a lot of times they have an all Mari prayer

  • Service in which the entire community comes together. They bring a lot of food

  • They sacrifice the bones skin and organs of an animal to the fire

  • Mordovia capitals saransk minority group represented the morphine

  • Here's the thing. The land here is pretty flat, but they still love like cross-country skiing

  • These people are really big on wood carving and they are really good at it

  • It's not uncommon to see a lot of traditional morphing houses that look like log cabins

  • it's like they they sand the wood very nice and well and they also have

  • disputable e the most famous puppet theater in all of Russia North Ossetia

  • Aulani capital Vladikavkaz minority group the Assyrians and they are the only

  • Iranian people group that have their own Republican Russia as and they're descended from people from Iran

  • But the thing is the majority of them are Christian

  • anyway

  • It was also historically part of the Silk Road and the people here made a lot of money back in the day today has lots

  • Of minerals and spa resorts, but then there's the controversy with South Ossetia

  • We talked about this in the Georgia episode internationally recognized as part of, Georgia

  • however

  • administratively it kind of falls under Russian jurisdiction since

  • 2008 after the Russia Georgian War in order to get in from the Georgia side

  • You actually need a passport next one Yakutia or the sakha republic minority group represented the Yokota

  • This is a very unique spot in Russia. They are like the most East Asian looking people in Russia

  • They hold fast to their traditions. They have a lot of their own traditional costumes and food

  • They like to perform circus acts they love horses

  • I even have a summer festival in which everybody just kind of does their own cool thing

  • there's a ton of diamond mining out here and

  • Yakutsk, the capital is like the second coldest major city in the world

  • Tatarstan capital is kazan minority group at about half of the population are the tatars

  • These guys are like the brothers of bashkortostan and out of all the secondary language is taught in russia

  • Tatara is actually one of the most prevalent

  • Basically a long time ago the Volga boulders mixed in with the Kip Chuck Turks and then BAM that Tatars were born today

  • They're one of the most economically developed regions in all of Russia tons of oil here

  • They have these three UNESCO heritage sites, and I yeah, the place is kind of like a mix between Orthodox and Muslim

  • There's even an all

  • Religions temple that was built here Tuva capital Keisel minority group the two vin people and it's weird because these people are like in awe

  • Shoot cousin of the mongols even though they speak a Turkic language

  • I mean at one point they even were part of Mongolia they have very similar traditions and customs to the Mongolian people

  • So in the few places where you can find steppe nomadic lifestyle traditions just like the Mongolians they have their own version of throat singing

  • Which sounds kind of eerie because it uses like two tones with your throat

  • And just like the Mongolians there's a noticeable Buddhist majority

  • Yeah

  • Buddhists Russians high Kalmykia

  • And finally Woodmoor Chia capital chefs minority group at about 30% the roots

  • They are known as the meadow people and they have one of the highest concentrations of people with red hair in all of Russia

  • They even have a red hair festival. They have their own national epic called the doors

  • Even II they play it with lots of strings and wood instruments

  • otherwise remember we're on flag slash fan Friday that person visited this place and they sent me a bunch of stuff from Woodmoor chia like

  • This magnet and they say I think you were from Finland

  • And you said like it was interesting because you could kind of understand what they're saying cuz they're kind of like your cousins

  • I don't know

  • I feel like a lot of Finnish and Estonian

  • And maybe even Hungarian people might be interested in these areas cuz it's like they kind of technically are distant relatives of you guys

  • I don't know if you're finished Estonian or Hungarian. What do you think about the people the earl people from these areas?

  • Anyway, that's it

  • All the republics of the Russian Federation as you can see it's kind of interesting because it's like they each kind of have their own

  • Little story and they all kind of had their own little rule that they played in the history of Russia

  • It's a really cool place

  • I would love to travel there and maybe blog about it and if you would like to blog about it or share your

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  • Alright, well, thank you guys for watching. I gotta work on the next country episode. I hope you have a good one

  • Stay cool. Stay tuned

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