The largest protests since the war began. Exactly one year ago, on January 15, 2024, protests began in the town of Baymak in support of the Bashkir activist Fail Alsynov

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1. On January 15, 2024, in the Bashkir town of Baymak, in the southeast of Bashkortostan, protests began in support of the Bashkir activist, the recognized leader of the Bashkir opposition Fail Alsynov. This man is known for heading the largest opposition organization “Bashkort”, which in May 2020 the russian occupiers recognized as an extremist organization. The organization advocated for the sovereign rights of the republic, supported the Bashkir language and culture, fought against the spread of alcohol, but for the russian occupiers, all this is a crime and an obstacle in their discriminatory and criminal policy against the Bashkir people and Bashkortostan. In Fail Alsynov, the russian occupiers saw and see a threat to their regime in Bashkortostan.

   In April 2023, Fail Alsynov spoke out at a protest in the village of Ishmyrza (Ishmurzino) against geological exploration work in the local mountains. In October 2023, a criminal case was opened against him. The so-called head of the republic, Radiy Khabirov, who is the head of the occupation regime in Bashkortostan, personally spoke out against him.

   The court hearing was scheduled for January 15, 2024. Between 1,000 and 5,000 people came. Seeing this popular force and realizing that they could rebel, the court hearing was postponed to January 17, 2024. Already then, between 5,000 and 10,000 people came, on the other side there were Russian punitive forces. On January 19, 2024, protests took place in the capital of Bashkortostan, Ufa. As a result, the russian occupiers brutally suppressed the protests, killed two people and convicted almost 100 people.

   The protests in Bashkortostan have become the largest since the full-scale russian aggression against Ukraine, and the Baymak case has become the largest criminal case in the history of the so-called russian federation since 1991.

   Fail Alsynov recognized as a political prisoner.

   So, FUCK RUSSIA!!! LONG LIVE FREE BASHKORTOSTAN!!!

2. Long Live Bashkortostan!

   Freely translated from the [Finnish independence struggle Jaegar song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d91FuK11QvU)

   Our strike is deep, our wrath invincible
   no mercy, no homeland.
   All of our happiness is at the tip of our swords,
   our hearts do not yield
   Our war cry is for all the blood spilled for our land
   Our land that is cutting off it’s chains.

   ::our defiance will not become tired untill
   the people of Bashkortostan are free::

   When the rest of the people and the land hang their heads
   we Jaegers still believe.
   In our chest we had the night, a thousand pains,
   but only one proud, holy thought:
   We will rise like the revenge of Kullervo
   it’s sweet destiny in the heart of war.

   ::A new tale will be born now in Bashkortostan,
   it grows, it rushes, it will win::

   Bashkir town of Baymak and the land,
   there’s only one, great Bashkortostan.
   It’s ideolody can not by force be taken
   away from under the Northern sky.
   It’s lionflag is carried by
   the strong arms of the Jaegers.
   ::Over the roaring, bloody battlefields
   to the rising nation of Bashkortostan::

   *I do not know as much of your land as I would like, but I wish our songs can carry you as far as they did us. Strength brothers.*

3. Easily suppressed by siloviki

4. This will be one of Putins biggest rivals after the war, all the peoples smelling weakness and wanting their own independent countries.

5. Imagine needing that much police.

   Also, I would suggest moving. The police definitely kept track of your faces.

6. I mean… some in the very early days might have been about as big. Before Putin managed to arrest and intimidate absolutely everyone in Russia.

7. And all the local telegram channels who dared to even mention it – were deleted

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