Month: May 2020

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.

This was first reported by the Democratic Congress of the Peoples of the Russian Federation (DKNRF). This was confirmed by the Komi activist Nikolai Udoratin.

These days we have witnessed a new wave of repression against the indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation.

In April 2020 Inyazor’s Secretariate launched renewed version of www.inyazoro.info to highlight activity of Erzya national movement in two languages, Erzya and English. Since first 2 weeks of online we got many warm greeting letters from Erzya. Their authors not just expressed support of Inyazor, but also complained about absence of good web-resources to help with study of Erzya language and vocabulary improvement.

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One of the biggest Finno-Ugric ethnic groups in Russian Federation – Erzya – approved new system of national representative bodies. The corresponding decision was accepted by Atyan’ Ezem (erz. Elders’ Council) on May 1, 2020.