Mordovia is the only republic in which the national library is named after Pushkin, and not a national writer
How a security officer from Rostov was turned into a Finno-Ugric by propaganda
Sergey Filev was born in the Rostov region on the border with the Lugansk region of Ukraine. Already in adulthood, he moved to Mordovia, where he served as a riot policeman. In 2022, he was mobilized and sent to fight, and for his mother in return for her son, the local administration installed a fence made of chain-link mesh (the son has been of no use anyway, but at least there is a fence).
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