In modern history - rallies and actions against the policy of the Russian Federation (in particular, against discrimination of the Buryat people on national and linguistic grounds).
Russian conquerors of Eastern Siberia regarded this region as a source of income for the Moscow treasury rich in raw materials and furs.
[2] The strong military-political alliance of the Ekhirites and Bulagats, whom the Cossacks called "big brothers" in the documentation, had a clear governance structure and an elected military leadership.
In 1634, the Buryat prince Kogonya and his men slaughtered almost the entire detachment of the Pentecostal Vasily Dunayev, who had come to the Bratsky ostrog to collect yasak.
Together with the Russian expropriation of ancestral lands and traditional nomadic pastures of the Buryats, this caused resentment among the local population, supported by the Buddhist clergy.
Nicholas II refused meetings with representatives of Buryatia and rejected all petitions, after which the Buryats began to boycott the volost authorities.
During this period, the scholar-philologist and socio-political figure Tsyben Zhamtsaranovich Zhamtsarano wrote a number of scientific works on the national statehood of Mongols and Buryats.
In 1905, against the backdrop of the all-imperial anti-Tsar rebellion, a Buryat congress is held in Chita, demanding self-government and linguistic freedom for Buryatia.
Thus, the official vertical Mongolian script was banned and the Cyrillic alphabet was introduced, causing many traditional literary written forms of the Buryat-Mongol language to be excluded from use.
During Brezhnev's time, a policy of creating a "unified Soviet nation" was actively pursued, with most schools in Buryatia switching to exclusively Russian as the language of instruction.
Organizations emerged with the aim of uniting the Buryat territories and reviving the native language and culture; the issues of autonomy and self-determination of the region were also raised.
After the democratic reforms of 1991, a number of non-governmental organizations returned to advocating the ideas of pan-Mongolism ("Movement for National Unity Naegedel" and "Buryat-Mongol People's Party").
The demand was based on the current legislation of the federation and the obligations assumed by the RF to comply with international legal norms, as well as archival historical documents.
After the tragedy in Bucha, the negative image of a Buryat soldier in the uniform of the Russian Armed Forces became entrenched in the world press.
[30][31][32] In the modern Russian Federation and abroad, there are a significant number of activists working to revitalize the Buryat language, culture and independence.
For example, Vladimir Khamutayev, Buryat dissident, professor, doctor of Historical Sciences, who emigrated to the United States in 2015, called it the persecution of the authorities as the main reason for changing the country.
The scientist's departure was preceded by his dismissal from the Institute of Mongolology, Buddhology and Tibetology of the Buryat Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the wording "for being absent".
Many believe that the real reason for Khamutayev's expulsion from the institute was the book "Buryatia's Accession to Russia: History, Law, Politics", published by the scientist in 2011.
The book refuted the concept of "voluntariness" with numerous historical facts of permanent military actions for a whole century, emphasizing the violent nature of the accession of the Buryats by Tsarist Russia.
This was followed by persecution of Khamutayev in his home country, which forced him to leave Buryatia with his family and receive political asylum in the United States.
His textbook "History of the Buryats" was banned from publication, and Bulat himself was accused of allegedly collaborating with U.S. representatives to plan a color revolution.
Previously, she had no interest in politics, but after the outbreak of war in Ukraine, she became a civil activist and began looking for contacts of oppositionists in exile, thus getting acquainted with Vladimir Khamutayev.
[37] In 2023, as the leader of the movement "Tusgaar Buryad-Mongolia" ("Independence of Buryat-Mongolia", the pre-revolutionary name of Buryatia), she spoke at the European Parliament in the framework of the Forum of Free Peoples of Russia: she spoke about the forced Christianization of the Buryats, the suppression of national resistance, collectivization, repressions of the 30s, destruction of Buddhist temples, religious objects and religious books.