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The islands small population mainly consists of Buryats, a northern Mongol population group, and one of the largest minorities in Russia. Buryat is a independent language but closely related to Mongolian and like in Mongolia, Cyrillic script is used for orthography, but as everywhere in Russia â despite the independent minded, and somewhat secluded population â Soviet centralism prevailed, and Russian is universally spoken.
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