Representatives of Bashkir, Buryat, Erzya, Kalmyk and Tatar national movements appealed to parliament of Estonia. Activists claim about further strengthening of assimilation and russification policy and expanding of new wave of political repressions against activists and national organizations of indigenous peoples in Russia.

This was first reported by the Democratic Congress of the Peoples of the Russian Federation (DKNRF). This was confirmed by the Komi activist Nikolai Udoratin.

These days we have witnessed a new wave of repression against the indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation.

In April 2020 Inyazor’s Secretariate launched renewed version of www.inyazoro.info to highlight activity of Erzya national movement in two languages, Erzya and English. Since first 2 weeks of online we got many warm greeting letters from Erzya. Their authors not just expressed support of Inyazor, but also complained about absence of good web-resources to help with study of Erzya language and vocabulary improvement.

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One of the biggest Finno-Ugric ethnic groups in Russian Federation – Erzya – approved new system of national representative bodies. The corresponding decision was accepted by Atyan’ Ezem (erz. Elders’ Council) on May 1, 2020.

Free Idel-Ural civic movement appealed to the Lamberto Zannier, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, with a request to make an intervention to protect Bashkort – Bashkir public organization.

Ministry of education of Republic of Mordovia reacted to a public campaign by Erzyan activists who send their claims to the head of the republic demanding to open Erzyan gymnasium in Saransk.

The national organization “Bashkort” today published a statement in which it announced a “vote of no confidence” to the head of Bashkortostan, Radij Khabirov.

Erzya launched a public campaign to achieve the opening of a modern gymnasium in Saransk with the Erzya language of the educational process.

The ethnic organization «Bashkort» on Wednesday published an appeal to the Russian and international community to pay attention to the persecution of the organization by the authorities and stand up for it.

Activists of the movement call their supporters to begin protest actions with an appeal to stop repressions against Bashkir public organization (BPO) Bashkort and support its members in court.

The presentation of the Erzyan poem “Ermez”, planned for the coming days in Saransk, was disrupted due to the intervention of the Ministry of Culture, National Policy and Archival Affairs of the Republic of Mordovia.

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.