Russia and native nations: Idel Realii review

We are glad to offer our readers complete text of interview with  Syres’ Boliayen’, Inyazor (chief elder) of Erzya people, undertaken by Erzyan Mastor newspaper. The brief variant of conversation can be read in issue №552 (August 28, 2019).

Over the last few months an intense debate has taken place between two prominent Tatar historians, Damir Iskhakov and Alfrid Bustanov, with the former focusing on the centrality of the territory of Tatarstan for maintaining the Tatar nation and the latter arguing that Tatars must move beyond that Soviet framework and become “a post nation.”

At the first session of the State Assembly of the Republic of Mari El, Anatoly Smirnov, who did not gain the winning number of votes on the party list of “United Russia”, was apparently uncontested elected by a majority of the deputies from the ruling party. It was reported by the site Mari Uver, citing the newspaper «Our Version – Mari El, Chuvashia».

Kersti Kaljulaid, the Estonian president, invited her Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to attend the World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples in June 2020.

Twins seeking refugee status are desperate to avoid the fate of their friend, who tells his story of time spent in a re-education camp in China for the first time.