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If invading Ukraine was the greatest political mistake of President Vladimir Putin's 24 years in power, then partial mobilisation that September - at least domestically - was perhaps the second.

At a huge new exhibition in Moscow visited by Skys Diana Magnay, the public lap up the Kremlins message that Russia is great and the Ukraine war is in hand - a message easier for them to face up to than uncomfortable truths.

The Russian finance ministry has ordered the heads of eight regions, including Chechnya, to sign pledges to cut budget deficits.

Thousands of Buryats, a distinctive ethnic minority in Russia, fled tsarist conscription during WWI, then Soviet repressions that followed, to form their own microcosm of Buryat culture in a remote region of Mongolia.

A cyclone in the Black Sea and southern Ukraine caused infrastructure damage in many areas of coastal southern Russia and occupied Ukraine and is impacting the tempo of military operations along the frontline in Ukraine, but has notably not stopped

Four regions in Russia are among Moscow-controlled entities that have been ordered to cut budget deficits.

The unique genomic architecture of animal breeds need to be preserved, they say, as they represent monuments of the historical development of mankind.

The parties considered the prospects of the Belarusian holding company in the production and promotion of special equipment in the Republic of Tuva. The parties also discussed issues of further cooperation with the region, with the main focus on the possibilities to increase the sales of construction and agricultural machinery to this region.

Kommersant reported that Chechnya is among the regions controlled by Moscow that have been ordered to balance their books.

As Russia continues to send troops to Ukraine, people from its ethnic minority regions are more likely to be conscripted and face higher death rates in battle. Thousands of them have fled to neighbouring countries to avoid that fate — but relocation comes with its own challenges.