Difficult times are ahead: Tatars against Tatars

This holiday has been celebrated in the republic since 1992. The Constitution of Tatarstan was adopted on November 6, 1992 at the XII session of the Supreme Council of the Republic. The pathetic phrase “the creation of this important legal document played a significant role in the development of the political system of the region” is difficult to refute. But what is the result? And what were the hopes, do you remember?
Read MoreDo you remember the children’s fairy tale about two clumsy bear cubs who could not correctly divide the found block of cheese until the fox “helped” them? It seemed to the poor bears that the main trouble was that the other had a larger piece. The fox came to help. She made and made equal until she left tiny pieces to the greedy brothers. But absolutely equal.
Read MoreToday, in the center of Yoshkar-Ola, activists of the national movement of the Mari people handed out flags and stickers with the symbols of Mari El. Once it will be a big holiday, but for now it is necessary to celebrate semi-underground.
Read MoreRead MoreI suggest
To melt Minin,
Pozharskiy.
Why do they need a pedestal?
Praising two shopkeepers
Is enough for us,
October caught
Them behind the counters.
We didn’t break our necks
Accidentally.
I know it would fit.
Big deal,
They saved Russia!
Or maybe it would be better not to save?
Jack Althausen
We have collected and structured what various travelers and ethnographers from Muscovy wrote about the Chuvash and what kind of future they wished for the Chuvash.
Of all the regions of the Russian Federation, only the peoples of the Caucasus are represented both on the political front and by power structures created abroad and ready at the first opportunity to join the struggle for independence already on the territory of their republics.
Read MoreThe author of this text is Shamil Amangildin, head of the Bashkortostan branch of the Federative Party. The material is very debatable, it is difficult to agree with the author on some issues, but his approach to the problem makes one think, and this is already a lot.
Read MoreFrom open sources, we became aware of the initiative to convene the Congress of People’s Deputies in Jablonna city, Poland (November 4-7, 2022). The delegates of the Congress are representatives of the deputy corps of Russia of different years and different levels, elected in internationally recognized elections. Their common platform is the rejection of the war between Russia and Ukraine, which began in 2014, and the readiness to change the social and political system that has been established in the Russian Federation. The organizers of the event announced the adoption of the Declaration on the constitutional principles of Free Russia after the overthrow of Putin’s regime, a list of priority decisions of the post-Putin Russian government, etc.
Read MoreSergey Konofolskyi, the Russian occupier (now deceased), wrote in his social media account, “If it weren’t for the Russian Empire and the USSR, then mambets would still shit behind their yurts!” One of the users responds to this statement, “It’s not true, for example, even when there were no amenities in the house, the Tatars had a kumgan, a copper jug with warm water, which they took with them to the toilet. Once I was in a Russian village in Orenburg region, I asked where the toilet was, they said behind the barn, I went there and did not find it, I returned and said, “Where is it? I did not find it.” They said, “The toilet is behind the barn.”
Read MoreThe Kremlin’s main weapon has always been the same: callousness and cruelty towards its own citizens in general, and towards soldiers in particular. The same attitude that has been professed and proclaimed for centuries by its commanders: “Women will give birth to more!”
Read MoreEach of us has a personal history associated with learning our native language. But one way or another, this story is connected with Russian. An optimistic scenario is everyone around spoke their native language, but Russian was always in the background, and propaganda constantly inspired that it was a language of great culture (and other languages were much poorer). The realistic scenario is much sadder. What should we do with our Russian-speaking? Here is what Dinara Rasuleva, a poetess, actress and social activist, said about this.
Read MoreHere is a view from Kuban on the problem of recognizing (and gaining) independence, which is becoming more and more acute for our republics. Here’s what Crimson Klin says about it.
Let us explain to you what the two acts recently adopted by Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine mean.
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