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Could Siberia survive without Russia? The brutal truth behind its resources, power, and neighbors.
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What would happen if Siberia broke away from Russia? On paper, it’s rich in oil, gas, gold, and diamonds. But behind the vast resources lies a harsh reality: brutal climate, weak infrastructure, sparse population, and powerful neighbors ready to pull it into their orbit. In this video, Elvira Bary dives deep into Siberia’s hidden vulnerabilities, exploring why independence might be far more dangerous than it seems—and why the world should care.
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00:00 Could Siberia survive without Russia?
00:40 Economy
04:34 Climate
08:58 People Problem
13:09 Territory Claims
20:46 Bottom line
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What would happen if Siberia broke away from Russia? On paper, it’s rich in oil, gas, gold, and diamonds. But behind the vast resources lies a harsh reality: brutal climate, weak infrastructure, sparse population, and powerful neighbors ready to pull it into their orbit. In this video, Elvira Bary dives deep into Siberia’s hidden vulnerabilities, exploring why independence might be far more dangerous than it seems—and why the world should care.
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00:00 Could Siberia survive without Russia?
00:40 Economy
04:34 Climate
08:58 People Problem
13:09 Territory Claims
20:46 Bottom line
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00:00Imagine waking up tomorrow by breaking news.
00:05Siberia has declared independence from Russia.
00:08Half the map, home to most of Russia's oil, gas, diamonds and gold, gone overnight.
00:16But could this new Siberian nation even survive its first day?
00:22My name is Elvera Perry.
00:24I was born in the Soviet Union and today we are asking one of the most provocative questions.
00:31Could Siberia truly survive on its own?
00:34Or is the entire idea of Siberian independence doomed from the start?
00:44A new state lives or dies on its economy.
00:48And on paper, Siberia looks unbeatable.
00:53Oceans of oil and gas, mountains of gold, diamonds, coal and a forest belt big enough to swallow France.
01:01Western Siberia alone supplies roughly 70% of Russia's oil and gas.
01:06The megafields of Yamal-Nenets and Hanty-Mansi keep the crumbling on the energy front.
01:13Farther east, Yakutia is a treasure chest holding 90% of Russia's diamonds along with gold and rare minerals.
01:22But scratch the surface, and a much harsher picture appears.
01:28Agriculture?
01:29Virtually non-existent.
01:31The problem is not laziness.
01:33It's geography and geology.
01:36In the north, nutrient-poor soils sit on permafrost, making farming nearly impossible.
01:44Where there's no permafrost, there are mountains or dense, untamed taiga.
01:49Less than 5% of Siberia's land is even suitable for crops, clinging to the southern fringe.
01:57Logistics create another choke point.
01:59The mighty Ope, Yenisei and Lena rivers could have been natural superhighways, but they flew
02:06north, into the Arctic, a dead end for shipping.
02:11Vladivostok, the only deep-water port, sits thousands of miles from major resource hubs,
02:19turning every shipment into a logistical nightmare that leaves just four survivors.
02:26Government jobs, local services, defense plants and resource extraction done by fly-in, fly-out crews.
02:35Oil workers, fly-in for 30-day shifts, then charter back west.
02:41The profits flow to Moscow-based corporations controlled by Putin's oligarchs.
02:47Taxes fill the federal budget.
02:49Tourism holds real potential.
02:52Siberia is a treasure trove of natural wonders, a dream for anyone drawn to wild northern beauty.
02:59Towering Altai mountains, wrapped in mist.
03:03Endless taiga forests, where you can wander for days.
03:06Like Baikal, so deep and clear, it feels like you are staring into the earth's soul.
03:12The northern lights shimmering over frozen Yakutia.
03:17Volcanoes, gazers and steaming hot springs in Kamchatka that feel overworldly.
03:23For those crave raw wilderness, Siberia offers a kind of wild majesty you won't find anywhere else.
03:31But roads, hotels and basic services still lag decades behind.
03:36After 2022, when European borders slammed shut for Russians,
03:41interest in Baikal and other wonders surged.
03:44Yet the much-hyped tourism boom never came.
03:48Even with federal funding and Putin's personal backing.
03:54A joke explains it perfectly.
03:57An American asks a Siberian,
03:59Is it true you have bears walking down the roads?
04:03The Siberian answers,
04:05Not true.
04:06We don't have any roads.
04:08For most Russians, Siberia remains just as remote and unreachable as it is for foreigners.
04:13Traveling from Moscow to Vladivostok by train takes nearly seven days.
04:19Flying is faster, but barely affordable.
04:22A one-way ticket from my hometown, Nizhny Novgorod, to Irkutsk, nearby Baikal,
04:27costs almost half the average monthly salary.
04:31And you'll still spend eight hours in the air.
04:39It's no surprise that Russian Tsars and later the Communists
04:43sent their enemies to Siberia.
04:46The climate alone was punishment.
04:49Endless forests and merciless winters made escape nearly impossible.
04:54The only way out was by railroad.
04:57And the guards always knew where to watch for fugitives.
05:01But even if you slipped past the guards,
05:05the Teigar had one more deadly obstacle.
05:08Hunger.
05:10Gruesome stories from Stalin's era tell how escape groups
05:13would often invite a large, well-fed man to join them.
05:17You can probably guess why.
05:21Now you know.
05:22I hope this little detail won't haunt your dreams tonight.
05:26There are some pockets of milder,
05:29monsoon-influenced climate in the Far East.
05:31But most of Siberia suffers brutally harsh winters.
05:37Local party trick.
05:38Fling a mug of boiling water into the air.
05:41It vapor freezes into a cloud of snow before it even hits the ground.
05:47YouTube calls it a Siberian firework.
05:50Locals call it a five-minute science show.
05:53As one local joke goes, Siberia has two major holidays.
05:57New Year and Summer.
05:59And both are over in a flash.
06:02Summer is short, barely mid-July to mid-August.
06:06But when it comes, it heats hard.
06:10Temperatures soar and every living creature scrambles to feed while it lasts,
06:15including huge mosquitoes.
06:17The whole region turns into a giant powder keg.
06:22Dried pit bogs and pine forests waiting for a lighting strike
06:26or one careless oil rig secret to set it ablaze.
06:31With no roads and no firefighters for hundreds of miles,
06:36a single spark becomes a roaring wall of flame.
06:40Big smoke can smother entire cities so dense,
06:43you can't even see the traffic lights.
06:46Like something out of Silent Hill.
06:49Roughly 65% of Siberia sits on permafrost.
06:54Buildings must rest on deep pylons,
06:57tripling construction costs.
06:59Each summer, when the surface thaws,
07:02those concrete stilts begin to wander.
07:07In Norilsk, dozens of apartment blocks
07:10leans so badly, locals call them drunken towers.
07:14Climate change heats Siberia especially hard.
07:18The region warms by about 2 degrees Celsius every 50 years.
07:23Far faster than the global average.
07:26Fewer deadly frosts might sound like good news,
07:30but thawing permafrost
07:31sinks buildings,
07:34twists pipelines,
07:35and shreds roads.
07:37On the upper side,
07:38it coughs up Ice Age souvenirs.
07:41Baby mammoth Luba,
07:43perfectly preserved after 42,000 years.
07:47Or cave lion cubs Boris and Sparta,
07:51with fur and whiskers intact.
07:53Mammoth task hunters still roam the tundra,
07:56gambling on the next frozen jackpot.
08:04Siberia's biggest challenge is population.
08:07Most indigenous nations were wiped out
08:10or absorbed.
08:12Before Russians arrived,
08:14this land belonged to dozens of indigenous groups.
08:17Hanti, Nenets, Ebenks,
08:20Chukchi, and many more.
08:22What drew Moscow east was simple.
08:26Expanding its fur tax base.
08:30Vast hunting grounds meant sable pelts and other furs.
08:34Every European king wore ermine mantles.
08:38Symbols of wealth, purity, and absolute power.
08:42But where did all those ermines come from?
08:45The answer is always Siberia.
08:48For centuries,
08:49trappers scoured its snowy forests,
08:52hunting thousands of sable ermine,
08:55and folks to feed Europe's appetite for luxury furs.
08:59In the Russian Empire,
09:01fur was also as valuable as gold.
09:05The iconic bayar hat,
09:07huge and cylindrical,
09:09was made from the throats of martens and sables.
09:13That's why in Russian it's called
09:16gorlatая шапка,
09:18literally throat hat.
09:20The wealthy also wore belly fur coats,
09:23made from the softest fur of the animal's underside.
09:28Winter coats were sewn fur-side in for warmth.
09:33Only the collar faced outward.
09:35The outer layer was covered with fabric.
09:38So, the Siberian taiga brought furs.
09:41The furs brought money.
09:42The money built armies and palaces.
09:45Colonization here looked much like the American West.
09:49Where cowboys raised Fort Laramie,
09:52Russians built wooden stackates called ostrogs.
09:58A few cannons,
10:00matchlock muskets and a treaty signed in a language few locals understood.
10:06And the land changed hands.
10:08Then came smallpox,
10:10flu and trade alcohol.
10:13Entire clans vanished within a season.
10:16Nomadic reindeer herders were saddled with fur deaths.
10:20Misses sable quarter,
10:23lose your pasture.
10:24Almost a carbon copy of Hudson's Bay Company playbook
10:29in the 18th century Canada.
10:31Over three centuries,
10:33many nations shrank,
10:34some hovered near extinction.
10:37Their languages now sit on UNESCO's endangered list.
10:41Oddly,
10:42Russians often knew more about America's indigenous peoples
10:45than those in Siberia.
10:47In the US,
10:48books and countless Westerns romanticized Native American tribes.
10:53In Russia,
10:54there were only a few attempts to depict Siberia's native peoples,
10:59usually as a comical stereotypes.
11:02That's how during Soviet times,
11:04hundreds of jokes emerged about the Chukchi,
11:07the simple-minded reindeer herder turned national punchline.
11:12Russians pushed east in the 17th century.
11:16First came Cossacks and garrison troops,
11:20sent to guard the frontiers and control native tribes.
11:24Then came convicts,
11:26political and criminal,
11:28followed by adventurers,
11:30merchants,
11:31and gold seekers chasing quick riches.
11:35In the 19th century,
11:37after serfdom was abolished,
11:39the state relocated masses of peasants.
11:41Waves of families poured into Siberia,
11:44lured by promises of free land,
11:47only to discover much of it barely produced anything.
11:51The Soviets added millions more.
11:54In the 1930s and 40s,
11:57prisoners filled labor camps across the Taiga.
12:00Later,
12:01entire youth brigades arrived to build mega-projects
12:04like the Baikal Amur mainline.
12:06Roughly half a million young Soviets laid that track to the future,
12:12and many never left.
12:14Yet Siberia remains almost empty.
12:17About 30 million people across a space the size of Canada.
12:22Fewer than 3 people per square kilometer,
12:25compared to 60 in central Russia.
12:28Birth rates hover around 1.4 children per woman.
12:34Alcoholism and drug abuse outpace national averages.
12:38In 2016,
12:39Moscow launched the Far Eastern Hector Program,
12:42offering a free hectare,
12:43about 2.5 acres,
12:45to anyone willing to move east,
12:48build a home,
12:48and farm the land.
12:50On paper,
12:51it sounded like a frontier fairy tale.
12:53In reality,
12:54no roads,
12:55no power,
12:56no running water,
12:57just endless bogs.
13:00Unsurprisingly,
13:01a few people sighed up,
13:02and most eventually drifted back west.
13:05The grand repopulation
13:06quietly sank into their muskig.
13:14A major slice of Eastern Siberia landed on Russia's map
13:18at China's expense.
13:20When Russian detachments first crossed the Urals
13:23in the 17th century,
13:25much of what is now South Eastern Russia
13:28was considered Chinese territory.
13:31A series of brutal conflicts followed,
13:34as Russians and Chinese fought to tax their indigenous tribes.
13:38Why didn't the indigenous tribes create their own state
13:42and control the fur trade?
13:45Because there simply weren't enough of them.
13:48They lacked the farming base
13:50to support armies or sustain markets.
13:53They needed an outside power
13:56to organize trade and offer protection.
13:59In Siberia,
14:00there were only two choices,
14:02Russia or China.
14:04The Treaty of Nyerchinsk,
14:06signed in 1689,
14:08drew the first official border
14:10between the two empires.
14:12It held for nearly 150 years,
14:15until China's power collapsed.
14:18The 19th century exposed deep cracks.
14:22The Opium Wars,
14:23Tepin' Rebellion,
14:25and devastating famines
14:27tore the Qing Empire apart.
14:29St. Petersburg seized its chance.
14:32In 1858,
14:35Governor General Nikolai Muravyev-Amursky
14:37sailed gunboats up the Amur River
14:40and forced a local Qing official
14:43to sign the Treaty of Aigun,
14:45surrendering vast Chinese territories to Russia.
14:48Two years later,
14:50while China was distracted
14:51by an Anglo-French invasion,
14:54Moscow sealed the Peking Convention of 1860,
14:58claiming Primorye,
15:00the site of Vladivostok
15:01and Russia's only warm-water Pacific port.
15:04Today,
15:05many Russians view Siberia
15:06as a national treasure.
15:08For centuries,
15:10it filled state coffers.
15:12Yet,
15:12a lingering fear persists
15:14that someone secretly dreams
15:16of seizing Siberia's riches.
15:18I remember a joke
15:20from the Iraq War era
15:22that captures that paranoia.
15:24Two American soldiers
15:25pray before the invasion.
15:26One says,
15:29Dear Lord,
15:29help me survive.
15:31Or at least,
15:32let me die a hero.
15:34The other adds,
15:35Dear Lord,
15:36please make the oil disappear from Siberia.
15:39The first soldier looks confused.
15:40What are you talking about?
15:42The second replies,
15:43Do you really want to go protect democracy in Siberia?
15:47I never fully understand this fear.
15:49As if Siberia's wealth
15:51belongs to ordinary people,
15:53when in fact,
15:54it's controlled by Russian oligarchs.
15:57But apparently,
15:59as long as the oppressor
16:00carries the right passport,
16:02people feel safer.
16:04Chinese historians group
16:05all these concessions,
16:07Hong Kong,
16:08Primori,
16:08and others,
16:09under one label,
16:10the Century of Humiliation.
16:12From the 1839 Opium War
16:15to the founding of the PRC in 1949,
16:20China lost land,
16:22sovereignty,
16:23and dignity.
16:24Reclaiming great power status
16:26is more than policy.
16:28It's psychological revenge.
16:30Officially,
16:30Beijing accepts today's borders,
16:33but Chinese textbooks
16:34still refer to the Amur's left bank
16:37as lost homeland.
16:39Memory powers long games.
16:41Today,
16:43Siberia feels
16:43creeping cynicization.
16:46No thanks,
16:47just steady gravity
16:48pulling it
16:49into Beijing's orbit.
16:51Tens of thousands
16:53of Chinese workers
16:54arrive yearly
16:55to log forests,
16:57pour concrete,
16:58or farm soy in Russia.
17:01Many stay,
17:02marry locals,
17:03and open noodle shops
17:04in villages
17:04that once had
17:06one dusty
17:07produkty store.
17:08Chinese agribusiness
17:09leases hundreds
17:10of thousands
17:11of acres
17:12in Amur Oblast
17:13and the Jewish
17:14Autonomous Region.
17:16On paper,
17:17they are joint ventures.
17:19In practice,
17:20it's Chinese capital
17:21under Russian paperwork.
17:24Night after night,
17:26flatbeds loaded
17:27with raw timber
17:28roll across the border.
17:30Locals complain,
17:31China's stripping
17:33our taiga.
17:34Yet,
17:35the chainsaws
17:36often belong
17:37to Russian firms
17:38registered
17:39under Cousins
17:40in Harbin.
17:42The new
17:42Black Aviation's
17:43K-Hair Bridge
17:44and the power
17:45of Siberia pipeline
17:46pump more
17:47than cargo.
17:48They pump
17:49dependence.
17:51Yuan
17:51replaces rubles.
17:54Alipay QR codes
17:55outnumber
17:56Sberbank terminals
17:58in border towns.
17:59Chinese elementary
18:00schools open
18:01in Chitay and Irkutsk.
18:03Demand for
18:04Mandarin classes
18:05surges.
18:06Flame markets
18:07give way
18:07to Taobao shuttles.
18:10Any hamlet
18:11can order
18:11a tractor
18:12direct from
18:13Manchuria.
18:14All of this
18:15is legal,
18:16just business.
18:17But the result
18:19is a steady
18:20pivot from
18:20Moscow
18:21toward Beijing.
18:22Money flows
18:24East.
18:25Trade routes
18:26shift
18:26East.
18:27Even
18:28taste buds
18:29migrate
18:30from black tea
18:31with condensed milk
18:32to
18:32Pu'erh.
18:34The Kremlin
18:35speaks of a
18:36no-limit
18:37strategic partnership.
18:39But for many
18:40Siberians
18:41that already
18:41means
18:42bread,
18:43lumber
18:43and even
18:44mobile data
18:46arriving with
18:47a Mandarin
18:47accent.
18:48While Moscow
18:49watches Ukraine,
18:51China secures
18:52the Amur.
18:52No tanks,
18:54just investments.
18:56True,
18:56Beijing carries
18:57its own
18:57burdens,
18:58slowing growth,
19:00heavy debt
19:00and looming
19:01demographics.
19:03Open annexation
19:04is unlikely,
19:05even in a
19:06Russian breakup.
19:08Siberia's future
19:09depends on
19:09whether Moscow
19:10can offer
19:11alternatives.
19:12Rail to the
19:13West,
19:13markets in
19:14India or
19:15advanced
19:16processing at
19:16home.
19:17Without that,
19:19sanitization
19:20may become
19:20the quietest
19:21and most
19:23effective
19:23revenge
19:24for the
19:25century of
19:26humiliation.
19:26Meanwhile,
19:28Japan still
19:28eyes
19:29sovereign
19:30Sakhalin.
19:31Once
19:31it's
19:32Karafuto
19:33prefecture.
19:33Under the
19:341875
19:36St. Petersburg
19:36treaty,
19:37Russia took
19:38full control
19:38of Sakhalin
19:39in exchange
19:40for searing
19:41the Kurils.
19:42After the
19:43Russo-Japanese
19:44war,
19:44the
19:451905
19:46Portsmouth
19:46treaty
19:47handed
19:47South Sakhalin
19:48to Tokyo.
19:49In 1918,
19:51exploiting
19:51Russia's
19:52civil war,
19:53Japanese
19:53troops
19:53landed
19:54in
19:54Vladivostok.
19:56Ostensibly
19:57to protect
19:57residents
19:58of Japanese
19:59heritage,
19:59but in
20:00reality to
20:01seize oil
20:02and create
20:03a puppet
20:03state.
20:05Brutal
20:05winters,
20:06partisans,
20:07hunger,
20:08and roadless
20:08swamps
20:09turned it
20:10into a
20:10nightmare.
20:11Under
20:12US and
20:13British
20:13pressure,
20:14Tokyo
20:15pulled
20:15out,
20:15signing
20:16a
20:16face-saving
20:17agreement
20:17with
20:18Moscow.
20:18August
20:191945
20:20redrew
20:21the map
20:22again.
20:23Soviet
20:23forces
20:24seized
20:24Karafuto
20:25in
20:26eight
20:26days,
20:27then
20:27swept
20:28down
20:28the
20:28Kuril
20:29chain.
20:29Japan's
20:30surrender
20:31cost
20:31it
20:31both
20:32South
20:32Sakhalin
20:33and
20:34every
20:34island
20:35in
20:35the
20:35ark.
20:36Today,
20:37Tokyo
20:37seeks
20:37only
20:38four
20:38sovereign
20:39Kuril
20:39islands.
20:40But
20:41with
20:41Russia
20:42and
20:42nuclear
20:43power,
20:43the
20:43fight
20:44stays
20:44diplomatic.
20:50So,
20:51could
20:51Siberia
20:52break
20:52away
20:53from
20:53Russia?
20:54In
20:54theory,
20:55yes.
20:56In
20:57practice,
20:58sustaining
20:58itself is
20:59a far
21:00tougher
21:00story.
21:01Running
21:02a country
21:02of this
21:03size requires
21:04bureaucrats,
21:05an army,
21:06infrastructure,
21:07and open
21:07markets.
21:08And in
21:09Siberia,
21:10each of
21:11those is
21:12a major
21:12weak
21:13spot.
21:13The
21:14pipelines
21:15point
21:15west
21:16into
21:16Russia
21:16and
21:17south
21:17into
21:17China.
21:18If
21:18Moscow
21:19shuts,
21:19the
21:19valves
21:20of
21:21Beijing
21:21slashes
21:22its
21:22purchases.
21:23Experts
21:24collapse
21:25overnight.
21:26With
21:26so few
21:27people,
21:27there's
21:28no real
21:28domestic
21:28market
21:29and no
21:30solid
21:31tax
21:31base
21:31to
21:32fund
21:32even
21:32basic
21:33services
21:34like
21:34schools,
21:35hospitals,
21:36or
21:36roads.
21:36Then
21:37comes
21:37the
21:38boom
21:38and
21:38bust
21:39cycle.
21:40Oil,
21:41gas,
21:41and
21:41nickel
21:42keep
21:42the
21:42lights
21:43on
21:43as
21:44long
21:44as
21:44global
21:44prices
21:45stay
21:45high.
21:46But
21:46keeping
21:47fields
21:47productive
21:48or
21:48developing
21:49new
21:49ones
21:50demands
21:51western
21:52technology
21:52and
21:53long-term
21:54investments
21:54that
21:55a
21:55fragile
21:56newborn
21:56republic
21:57simply
21:57wouldn't
21:58have.
21:58If
21:59prices
21:59fall
21:59or
22:00a
22:00field
22:00dries
22:01up,
22:01Siberia
22:02turns
22:02into
22:02a
22:02clearance
22:03sale,
22:03most
22:04likely
22:04to
22:04China.
22:05And
22:06finally,
22:07geopolitics.
22:08Caught
22:08between
22:09Beijing,
22:10Moscow,
22:10and
22:10just
22:11offshore
22:11Tokyo,
22:12Siberia
22:13would
22:13sit
22:13inside
22:14a
22:14power
22:14vacuum
22:15that
22:15nature
22:16does
22:16not
22:16tolerate.
22:18Without
22:18a
22:18navy
22:19or
22:19strong
22:20alliances,
22:21an
22:21independent
22:22Siberia
22:23quickly
22:23faces a
22:24stark
22:24choice.
22:25Become
22:26someone's
22:27raw
22:27material
22:27province
22:28or
22:29find
22:29a
22:30bigger
22:30pattern
22:30to
22:31lean
22:31on.
22:32But
22:32China
22:33offers
22:33a
22:34vast
22:34market
22:34and
22:35deep
22:35pockets,
22:36but
22:36risks
22:37full
22:37absorption
22:38into
22:38Beijing's
22:39orbit.
22:39Japan
22:40might
22:41bring
22:41technology
22:42and
22:42investment,
22:43but
22:43its
22:44support
22:45would
22:45be
22:45fragile,
22:46limited
22:46by its
22:47shrinking
22:47population
22:48and
22:48modest
22:49military
22:49reach.
22:50Central
22:51Russia
22:51might
22:51break
22:52apart
22:52too,
22:52forming
22:53a new
22:53federation
22:54with
22:54Siberia
22:54built
22:55on
22:55shared
22:56infrastructure
22:56and
22:57history.
22:57But
22:58even
22:58then
22:59the
22:59old
23:00problem
23:00returns.
23:01Centralized
23:02power
23:03and
23:03limited
23:04real
23:04independence.
23:05So,
23:06could
23:07Siberia
23:07really
23:08survive
23:08without
23:08Russia?
23:09My
23:10forecast?
23:11Even
23:11if
23:11secession
23:12happens,
23:13it
23:13won't
23:14last.
23:14Siberia
23:15simply
23:15lacks
23:16the
23:16foundations
23:17for a
23:17stable,
23:18self-sufficient
23:19state.
23:20Sooner
23:21or later,
23:21it would
23:22fold back
23:23into a
23:23larger
23:23structure,
23:24just to
23:25keep
23:25basic
23:26services
23:26running
23:26and
23:27maintain
23:28security.
23:29Understanding
23:30these realities
23:31isn't just
23:31interesting,
23:32it matters
23:34deeply for
23:34global
23:35politics
23:35and
23:36economics.
23:37If this
23:38exploration
23:39opened your
23:39eyes or
23:40challenged
23:41how you
23:41see
23:41Siberia's
23:42future,
23:43please
23:43share
23:43this
23:44video
23:44so
23:44others
23:45can
23:45learn
23:46too.
23:46Don't
23:47forget
23:47to
23:47subscribe
23:48and
23:48hit
23:48like
23:49if you
23:50appreciate
23:50content
23:51that
23:51digs
23:52beneath
23:52the
23:52surface.
23:53And
23:54if
23:54you'd
23:54like
23:54to
23:55support
23:55even
23:55deeper
23:56investigations
23:56into
23:57Russia's
23:57complexities,
23:58consider
23:59joining
24:00my
24:00think
24:01tank
24:01or
24:01simply
24:02buying
24:03me
24:03a
24:03coffee.
24:04Every
24:05contribution
24:05helps
24:06keep
24:06this
24:07work
24:07going.
24:08Thanks
24:08for
24:09watching
24:09and
24:10most
24:10of
24:11all,
24:11thank
24:11you
24:12for
24:12your
24:12caring
24:13enough
24:13to
24:14understand
24:14the
24:14world
24:15a
24:15little
24:15better.
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