The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation has declared the Free Idel-Ural organization undesirable in the territory of the Russian Federation. Information about the decision has already been sent to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in order to include “Free Idel-Urals” in the list of “foreign and international non-governmental organizations whose activities are considered undesirable in the Russian Federation.”

Syreś Boläeń, Inyazor (chief elder) of Erzya people announced the beginning of procedure for nomination of candidates to Council of elders of Erzya people (erz. Atyan’ Ezem). The corresponding document is published on Inyazor’s official web-site.

Erzya is one of the oldest Finno-Ugric languages with a unique vocabulary. Formally, Erzya is one of the official languages of the Republic of Mordovia, but in practice, Erzya, like any other Finno-Ugric people of the Russian Federation, is subject to a policy of aggressive assimilation.

From the first days of 2022 dramatic events in Kazakhstan shocked the entire world. Patient and wise Kazakh people are whipped up into a state when they were forced to take to the streets motivated by the desire for social justice. The government was frightened by national-wide protests, the government started to falter.

Leaders of the Bashkir national movement have publicly called on Bashkirs not to take part in Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Experimental multilingual classes with Russian, Erzya/Moksha, English languages of instruction may appear in Saransk.

Klishas-Krasheninnikov bill was supported by most MPs on first reading.

Statement of Syres’ Boliayen’, Inyazor (Chief Elder) of Erzya people, on the draft of the statement “In support of  native peoples of Russia” considered by Estonian Riigikogu.

Kshumantsian’ Pirguzh, a figure of Erzya national movement, who has served as Inyazor (Chief elder of Erzya people) in 1999-2019, appealed to Kaja Kallas, head of Estonian government.

First national conference on Finno-Ugric studies in memory of Anatoliy Ryabov was hosted in Mykola Gogol Nizhyn State University (Nizhyn, Ukraine) on 28 September 2021.

Kazakhstan is intensively preparing for a war with Russia. A bill has been written based on the experience of Ukraine in countering Russian aggression.

Russian authorities detained an Estonian diplomat in St. Petersburg for around an hour-and-a-half Tuesday. The diplomat, Mart Lätte, is one of three Estonian consuls in the city. The grounds for his detention was ‘receiving classified materials,’ Russian news portal RIA Novosti reports.

The reason was the posting of news about the action in memory of the Udmurt scientist Albert Razin, who committed self-immolation.

On Wednesday, June 16, the chief elder of Erzyan people (Inyazor) Syreś Boläeń held a briefing for the Estonian media.

On Wednesday, June 16, a briefing of Syreś Bóläeń, chief elder (Inyazor) of Erzya people, will be held in front of the Estonian National Museum (Muuseumi tee 2, Tartu, Estonia) starting at 11 a.m.