{"id":6365,"date":"2026-10-01T11:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=6365"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:12:09","slug":"sakha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=6365","title":{"rendered":"Sakha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=2827\">Russian<\/a> Empire &#8230; retained most of its territory and is still managing to hold together, masquerading a nation-state. &#8230; When the USSR fell in 1991 &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=2758\">Russia<\/a>, however, still retained most of the soviet land, being essentially shrank back to its 17th century borders &#8211; &#8230; it is still by far the largest country on the planet. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Consider the Republic of Sakha. An administrative unit roughly the size of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=1588\">India<\/a>, Sakha is the starting point of the Power of Siberia pipeline that transports natural gas from Sakha to China. The pipeline brings billions to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=2676\">Russia<\/a>, yet Sakha remains one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=43\">poorest<\/a> regions in the country with infrastructure so deteriorated that its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=368\">capital<\/a>, Yakutsk, is cut off from the rest of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=2787\">Russia<\/a> during summer: there are no bridges over the Lena River that blocks roads to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=465\">city<\/a>. The infrastructure itself creates a core-periphery relationship between Moscow or St. Petersburg and the rest of Russia, making many in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=147\">national<\/a> republics feel like they are living in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=741\">colony<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>aus: David Saveliev: The Eternal Empire: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/?p=750\">Decolonizing<\/a> Russia. In: Valentin Luntumbue u.a.: Places in the sun. Post-colonial dialogues in Europe and beyond. Brussels: Institute for a Greater Europe 2021, p.140-148.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">09\/26<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Russian Empire &#8230; retained most of its territory and is still managing to hold together, masquerading a nation-state. &#8230; When the USSR fell in 1991 &#8230; Russia, however, still retained most of the soviet land, being essentially shrank back to its 17th century borders &#8211; &#8230; it is still by far the largest country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6367,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions\/6367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}