THE CHEKING PROCESS – A map of the deaths of Russian soldiers recently prompted analysts to point to “state racism”: minorities would be mobilized more in the army to spare Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
A simple glance at the map of Mediazona , established in collaboration with the Russian service of BBC News, raises an observation that has been debated for several days. The journalists counted the death toll per capita in Russia in the context of the war in Ukraine, while specifying that “these numbers do not represent the actual number» deaths, since they come only from open and declarative sources.
Number of Russian casualties in Ukraine according to the site Mediazona, in collaboration with the Russian service of BBC News. Mediazona
Using these figures in a colored map, the analyst “World Maps” makes the obvious on Twitter: the regions of Moscow and Saint Petersburg are relatively spared, while “most of those killed in action come from the Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions, Bashkiria, Buryatia and Dagestan“. So many republics or regions far from the big cities, populated by various ethnic groups (which overall remain very much in the minority, ethnic Russians representing nearly 80% of the country’s population).
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