Russians should disavow themselves of the indigenous peoples elimination policy

Tatarstan’s writer and public figure Fauziya Bayramova summoned by the prosecutor’s office and received a warning.

For the dwellers of middle latitudes, the Pechora river basin, the Northern Ural, the Barents Sea coast are places unattractive and unsuitable for living. However, for a number of indigenous peoples it is a Homeland. Their lifestyle and habits – everything was adapted to the harsh environment. For the centuries people have been living this way, taking everything they needed from progress staying themselves.

Udmurt is a Uralic language spoken in Russia’s autonomous Republic of Udmurtia, where it shares official status with Russian. Speakers can also be found across a large area between the Volga River and Ural Mountains, such as in the Perm and Kirov Regions and neighbouring autonomous republics of Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, and Mari El. It is one of several related Uralic languages spoken in this diverse area of Russia, such as Mari, Erzya, Moksha, and Komi.

The Estonian nationalist youth movement Blue Awakening calls the wider public to notice the russification policy against many of Russia’s indigenous peoples that has lasted for decades and gained momentum in recent years.

Representatives of Bashkir, Buryat, Erzya, Kalmyk and Tatar national movements appealed to parliament of Estonia. Activists claim about further strengthening of assimilation and russification policy and expanding of new wave of political repressions against activists and national organizations of indigenous peoples in Russia.