Both individually and as a group, the six non-Russian republics of the Middle Volga — Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Udmurtia, Mordvinia, Mari El and Chuvashia (collectively known as the Idel-Ural) — have become a radically more serious problem for Moscow over the last year, challenging it in new ways and old.

On the 17th of January, at the main entrance of Carnegie Hall in the New York, an action was held by activists who opposed Chulpan Khamatova’s participation in the Festival Of The Tatar Song “Uzgaresh Zhile” (“Wind Of Change”).

Erzyan Inyazor Syres Bolyan applied to the chairman of the Ukrainian delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, People’s Deputy of Ukraine Yelyzaveta Yasko.

On January 14, the European Court of Human Rights made the decision in the case of journalist and civil activist from Mari El Georgy Pirogov, he was awarded compensation in the amount of 10,500 euros.

Editorial board of Idel.Realii (popular Povolzhye web-portal) have published an article about reports and statements of international organizations in defense of native peoples in Russian Federation.

Today officers of the Prosecutor’s office and of the Ministry of emergency situations came to the office of the national organization “Bashkort” to check it.

On December 7, 2019 reporting and elections conference of National and cultural autonomy of Mari people in Udmurtia took place in republican House of Friendship of peoples in Izhkar city (rus. Izhevsk).

Today, the Cultural Affairs Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Riigikogu (Parliament of Estonia) were given an overview of the activities of Estonia in supporting the Finno-Ugric peoples and of the preparations for the World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples, which would take place in Tartu in summer.

Today, the Deputy of the Parliament of the Republic of Tatarstan Rkail Zaidulla made an unexpectedly bold speech: “There is the destruction of national grounds of the Republic”, – he declared this, speaking about the next wave of attack on the Tatar language (and languages of other peoples of Russia).

Rafis Kashapov, the deputy prime minister of the Tatarstan government in exile, a member of the presidium of the All-Tatar Social Center (VTOTs) and a co-founder of the Free Idel-Ural movement, argues that the struggle against the Muscovite empire is harder now than it was in Soviet times.

On the 9th of November, 2019 The International Association of Chuvash people of the USA was established in Miami, Florida.

In the first half of October 2019 Syres’ Boliayen’, Erzyan Inyazor (chief elder), visited Estonia.

Action entitled “Day of Russian chauvinism” was held on 4 November near diplomatic offices of Russian Federation in different countries.

On so-called “day of national unity”, November 4^th, activists representing organizations of native peoples in Russia will picket diplomatic establishments of Russian Federation.

The European Сourt of Human Rights (ECHR) registered a complaint of blogger from Cheboksary Konstantin Ishutov about a fine of one thousand rubles for a post, published in his LiveJournal in 2012 and mentioning an extremist slogan about «the power of Russia». Human rights activist Alexei Glukhov reported about it in his Telegram-channel on October 28.