How Diverse is Russia? - Russia's Republics Explained

A lot of us often think of Russia as somehow being one big, monolithic, all-Slavic country, but that isn't necessarily the case, as Russia is home to numerous different ethnic republics that may or may not be impossible to explain without starting a flame war.

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[KhAnubis]

Just a quick disclaimer here, this is not supposed to be a video about politics. Unfortunately, it's next to impossible to highlight the points I wanted to highlight here without somehow starting a flame war, so please just know that I'm only /mentioning/ these certain things for educational purposes, not advocating for one side or the other.

[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Yup, Russia touches North Korea. And the longest train journey you can take goes through Russia and ends in Pyongyang. I went to Vladivostok by train. It was lovely

[AleksandrPodyachev]

Fun fact about Udmurtiya, the Udmurt people have the highest percentage of gingers or red heads, even higher then Scotland and Ireland

[eczkkxf]

"How diverse is Russia?"
As a russian, I'd say yes

[snayperrus]

Автор, Калининградская область это признанная всеми странами территории Российской Федерации, здесь у тебя ошибка вышла...

[Frahamen]

Fun fact about Kalmykia, it's also the only Buddhist majority "country" in Europe.

[masterchief]

The World: "So how many ethnic groups are there?"
Russia: "Yes"

[aleksandriarkov]

Thanks for the video, friend! I'm from Yakutia. And yes, we have our own flag, our own Sakha language, our own anthem and our own holidays. We even had Latin-based alphabet in the beginning of the 20 century, but it was changed to cyrillic-based.

[devenhull]

"Why is Liechtenstein not here"

Ah, Liechtenstein, my favorite Russian Republic

[Nonamearisto]

Stalin wasn't even Russian. He was Georgian. Ironic.

[jacklong]

Tannu Tuva May be the most popular nation in the world but we all now that The *Glorious Thunder Dragon Empire* of Bhutan is the most powerful nation ever to grace this earth.

[mariasirona]

Love to my uralic brothers and sisters- and the rest of Russia- on the other side of the border!
From Finland 🇫🇮❤️🇷🇺

[REanimation]

Смотрю какой-то забугорный гид по своей же стране. Л - логика

[drakez]

There even used to be a Volga German republic

[ethribin]

To be fair to Russia throughout its history, its likely one of the most culturaly diverse nations in the world.
Even if its dominated and authority driven by the slavic Russians

[dantejones]

I read in an old book Russia has 108 nationalities in it's borders. That is huge for one country.

[principetnomusic]

One note: many republics are heavily assimilated, meaning that, while they may be different ethnically from the Slavic Russians, they are very similar to them culturally.

[TomKellyXY]

Don’t forget the Ainu peoples of the Kuril Islands and Hokkaido. Yes Russia stretches far enough to have an ongoing territory dispute with Japan.

[Turgineer]

Respect to the Turkic people in Russia.

From Turkey🇹🇷

[alexvakulenko]

Every region of Russia has its own anthem!