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.

VII convention of Interregional public organization of Mordovian (Mokshan and Erzyan) people” was held on Octover 23-24, 2019 in Saransk. Republican authorities positioned convention of delegates from public organization as “national convention”.

Officials identified the suspect as a private serving in a remote area along Russia’s border with China, and blamed a “nervous breakdown.”

We are glad to offer our readers complete text of interview with  Syres’ Boliayen’, Inyazor (chief elder) of Erzya people, undertaken by Erzyan Mastor newspaper. The brief variant of conversation can be read in issue №552 (August 28, 2019).

Over the last few months an intense debate has taken place between two prominent Tatar historians, Damir Iskhakov and Alfrid Bustanov, with the former focusing on the centrality of the territory of Tatarstan for maintaining the Tatar nation and the latter arguing that Tatars must move beyond that Soviet framework and become “a post nation.”