Nika Dubrovsky (@nikadubrovsky.bsky.social)

For the Old Believers, correcting God’s name, unifying rituals, and building the fiscal-military state were the same process, so their retreat into the taiga was not a flight from the past but a refusal of the future as an imposed violent project. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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A century in the Siberian wilderness: the Old Believers who time forgot The long read: In 1978, Soviet scientists stumbled upon a family living in a remote part of Russia. They hadn’t interacted with outsiders for decades. Almost half a century later, one of them is still... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/22/forty-years-in-the-siberian-wilderness-the-old-believers-who-time-forgot?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawPh6c1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFHc2paRXJHTFY4WGtHNHdmc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHnaBYmom_gB_ttvK-ZM0AKIe0qYM_NUd2kY7RFBDI1sIHbHPNEbBwblgTLil_aem_JSm5cDC1QHRo5Qz5F6JvNw#Echobox=1769084840