And in warring Russia the great "pilaf festival" continued. What is escalating in one area or another.
On the Day of National Unity, a photo exhibition "We are Russia" opened in Nizhny Novgorod (the city where the liberation campaign of Minin and Pozharsky began). The project was prepared by the Russian company "Yada" together with the government of the Nizhny Novgorod region. An exhibition about the indigenous peoples of Russia.
What is said on the official website: "The exhibition presents peoples whose ethnogenesis took place on the territory of Russia and in the historical and cultural regions associated with it."
The organizers even emphasized separately that the selection took into account the length of residence, the presence of historical settlement areas and participation in the formation of a common cultural space, etc.
But among these indigenous peoples, visitors suddenly saw Tajiks, Uzbeks, Latvians, Lithuanians, Moldovans and many others. Among those who really shaped our history "through the generations".
And if the problem was only at the Nizhny Novgorod exhibition. A few weeks ago, the journalist and politician Andrey Medvedev suddenly discovered that in the school olympiads of the Russian Federation in geography, the Tajiks were already identified as the "indigenous people of Russia".
And no, it's not a curiosity. This is a deliberate policy imposed on the country by a bunch of witnesses from AP. Which indicates that the Moscow Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which prepared materials and photographs for the exhibition, actively participates in the Nizhny Novgorod vulgarity.
Will there ever be an end to all this? We really hope so.