Jul 22, 2026 · 1 hr 33 min · 11 segments
Masha and Sardana are the Sakha scholars and co-hosts of the podcast TYMSYY, a multilingual podcast on global Indigenous topics produced by Red Media. Subscribe to their show on your podcast app!…
Sina RahmaniHost
Sardana NikolaevaGuest
Masha KardashevskayaGuest
That's a good introduction, 'cause partly what, if people don't, if people haven't encountered either the podcast or our previous ... 'Cause this, you know, there, that was a while ago, so, uh, maybe not everybody who l- who listens to this episode has listened to the previous one.
So part of the interest that you guys have, and Sardana in particular, is, like, diamond mining, uh, s- diam- Sard- are you, are you, Masha, are you on that article? No, you're not on the, the piece that, or no, the sort of research study that Sardana ...
We did an episode on that for Red Nation, so if you're interested in that, go check that out on Red Nation.
But, so partly what I wanted to kind of continue our conversation before on ... 'Cause partly what, I don't know if we said this in this ep- in that episode, either the one we did together or with the one I did with you, Sardana, but, like, for us in the West, Russia is this big question mark.
Um, but also it's, uh, it has its, you know, it has this association with, you know, something criminal, something that needs to be put into a box.
Like, in Canada, we talk about confederation, where they talk, like, they say that, oh, that's what Canada is.
It's a confederation of these different settler colonial statelets, um, and they call it that.
But in the reality, like, what does a federal republic in the Russian Federation actually mean? Because that's, that's not, like, we're not talking about states' rights.
Like, we're not talking about, like, you know, North Carolina is a work to rule st- or whatever, like, um, they call it workers' rights.
That's a good introduction, 'cause partly what, if people don't, if people haven't encountered either the podcast or our previous ... 'Cause this, you know, there, that was a while ago, so, uh, maybe not everybody who l- who listens to this episode has listened to the previous one.
So part of the interest that you guys have, and Sardana in particular, is, like, diamond mining, uh, s- diam- Sard- are you, are you, Masha, are you on that article? No, you're not on the, the piece that, or no, the sort of research study that Sardana ...
We did an episode on that for Red Nation, so if you're interested in that, go check that out on Red Nation.
But, so partly what I wanted to kind of continue our conversation before on ... 'Cause partly what, I don't know if we said this in this ep- in that episode, either the one we did together or with the one I did with you, Sardana, but, like, for us in the West, Russia is this big question mark.
Um, but also it's, uh, it has its, you know, it has this association with, you know, something criminal, something that needs to be put into a box.
Like, in Canada, we talk about confederation, where they talk, like, they say that, oh, that's what Canada is.
It's a confederation of these different settler colonial statelets, um, and they call it that.
But in the reality, like, what does a federal republic in the Russian Federation actually mean? Because that's, that's not, like, we're not talking about states' rights.
Like, we're not talking about, like, you know, North Carolina is a work to rule st- or whatever, like, um, they call it workers' rights.
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