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🔴 Our Interactive News Map: https://www.rfunews.com/map 🔴 Subscribe to unlock full access to the map + exclusive strategic insights: https://www.rfunews.com/pricing Today, there are important updates from the Russian Federation. Here, separatism, once whispered in exile or suppressed by force, is now turning into open resistance and a threat to the stability of the state. With the effect of the war increasingly reaching Russians at home, these sentiments start to grow, as the Ukrainian intelligence directorate seeks to stoke the fires even further. In Yakutia, Russia’s largest republic spanning over three million square kilometers, separatist sentiment has evolved into a movement of identity, survival, and now defiance. Long treated as Moscow’s colony, Yakutia generates billions in diamonds, gold, and gas, yet its people remain among Russia’s poorest, living amid environmental devastation and neglect. Anger has been brewing for years, but the war in Ukraine has lit the fuse. Thousands of young Yakuts have died fighting for Russia’s ambitions, suffering 40 times more casualties than soldiers from the Moscow district, all while their homeland continues to be plundered. In September 2025, local deputy Alexander Ivanov crossed the final line by openly discussing Yakutia’s need to separate from Russia during an interview in Turkey. He called on Yakuts not to fear those who have occupied their land, directly challenging Moscow’s authority. His ties with pan-Turkic circles in...