>>211855964 (OP)>Is it really full of Russians?they are a majority though they mostly live in big cities, the rural areas (or even just forests, since many of these people still follow a hunter-gatherer lifestyle) are visibly more "native"
>What is their relations with the natives?generally good, those who live in big cities are completely assimilated and russified, usually being ashamed of their native roots or at least not paying attention to them
in rural areas they don't interact with Russians too much, they barely care that they live in a country named Russia or are Russian citizens, their main concern is to hunt a reindeer for a dinner
it's kinda similar to natives in Canada or Brazil I guess
>Are the Russians there different from the ones in Russia proper? Do they have their own identity?no, not really, regionalism is very weak in Russia overall and if anything, it exists mostly across the "traditional" territories of Russia so between north west, center west and south west. Anything east of the Ural is generally a colony only settled after 17th century and these people didn't acquire a separate identity on their own, they're just standard Russians, even more standard than those in Moscow, because there is zero peculiarity and regional flavor in let's say Vladivostok or Blagoveshchensk. Sometimes Uralites larp as if they were a distinct region because they pronounce some words in a different manner but that's almost nothing.
>Is it true every city is no older than 200 years?as a proper city yes, there might be older settlements here and there but they weren't really cities back then
>Is it as isolated as it looks?idk what you mean, actually cities in Far East have pretty developed business ties with China, partially also with Japan and Korea. For example in Vladivostok most cars are imported from Japan, with the wheel on the right.
