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.

Searches and detentions were conducted among activists of Bashkir national movement in Republic of  Bashkortostan. The information was reported by several sources.

The Chief elder of Erzya people (Inyazor) Syreś Boläeń met with Kaimo Kuusk, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Estonia to Ukraine.

Its authors are Professor of Mari State University Alexander Bakhtin and Yoshkar-Ola historian Alexander Sokolov.