Hello and welcome to Regions Calling, your guide to developments beyond the Russian capital from The Moscow Times.
This week’s edition coincides with Russia’s new Day of Indigenous Minority Peoples, which will take place every April 30 starting this year. To mark the occasion, we set out to tackle the tricky question of who is considered “Indigenous” in Russia.
But first, a look at the latest news:
Authorities in the Black Sea port town of Tuapse in the Krasnodar region on Tuesday ordered the evacuation of residents near a Rosneft oil refinery after a Ukrainian attack set fire to the facility for a third time this month.
The repeated Ukrainian strikes on the Tuapse refinery sparked major fires and spilled oil into the surrounding environment, resulting in visible environmental damage that eyewitnesses likened to an apocalyptic movie scene.
