Month: May 2019

Kyiv officially appealed to international community with initiative to impose sanctions against Moscow for violation of native people’s rights in Russian Federation. Corresponding resolution was approved by Ukrainian parliament on May 30, 2019.

Federalist union of European national minorities (FUEN) appealed to Minister of education of Russian Federation with a request to revise minister’s position on optional study of national languages. Doing so, FUEN reacted on earlier appeal of Free Idel-Ural movement (17.10.2018) about violation of right of native peoples in Idel-Ural to get education in their mother tongues.

Representatives of native peoples of Russia, united into Free Idel-Ural civic movement, picketed embassy of Federal Republic of Germany in Kyiv. Reason for the event, conducted on May 13, were reports about suspension of transit of Russian oil with high content of organochlorine compounds. 

Mr. Loránt Vincze, president of Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), speaking at regional UN forum on education in Brussels, critisized Ukraine for its new law on official language.

Erzyan Mastor is a historical motherland of Erzyan people, once a unified country, compactly located between Volga, Oka, Moksha and Sura rivers. Today it is southern part of the Nizhegorod Oblast and eastern part of the Republic of Mordovia, and small adjoining territories of nearby regions. Ethnogenesis of Erzyan people started here, as evidenced by ancient settlements, sacred sites and burial grounds.