Ekaterina Golovnya

In Tver province, in the God-forsaken village of Perelogi, there are Pamiri Tajiks who fled their homeland in the 90s, when a civil war broke out in Tajikistan. Now, together with a few indigenous villagers, they have to solve a difficult state question – what is "multiculture" in action?

The Khanty, an indigenous minority that lives in Russia's Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, take pains to preserve their culture. Artist Nadezhda Taligina and residents of the villages of Muzhi and Yamgort discuss their national traditions, culture, dialects and contemporary realities.