title: Governance Through Repression: Minority Rights in Wartime Russia
abstract: Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has intensified domestic repression targeting ethnic and religious minorities. Wartime mobilization policies have led to disproportionately high conscription and casualty rates among minority populations, while cultural and linguistic institutions have faced accelerated dismantling. Simultaneously, religious groups outside the Russian Orthodox Church have been subjected to surveillance, legal harassment, and the closure of places of worship under expanded 