Erzyans and Mokshans: “policy of Mordvinization” and the struggle for identity
WHO ARE MORDVA, ERZYA AND MOKSHA About 600 km from Moscow, in the Volga region, is the Republic of Mordovia, where a little less than 800 thousand people live. […]
4 March is the Day of the Defender of the Erzyan Homeland!
Friends, March 4 is the Day of the Defender of the Erzyan Homeland! We are announcing a contest for the best card, poster, slogan, poem, story! The prize is Yakov Kuldurkaev’s book […]
The Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences is headed by a researcher of the ethnography of Finno-Ugric nations
Moscow. February 16. INTERFAX.RU – Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology named after. Miklouho-Maclay of the Russian Academy of Sciences Dmitry Funk was fired, despite a letter from employees in his […]
Rostyslav Martyniuk: General Syrskyi is the Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, whose pedigree comes from the nobility and from representatives of the enslaved Erzya people. He is definitely not “Russian”
On the information front, Moscow fights against Ukraine with various fakes and IPSO. Recently, another Moscow throw-in related to the ethnic origin of the new Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces […]
How can we “equip the Russians”? — Rostyslav Martynyuk / XI Banderа readings
The fate of enslaved nations after the collapse of Russia is clear – they will become national states. What to do with Russian? What is the fate of the Russian […]
Asians of Russia, who are they? (short illustrated guide)
Asians in Russia are a large and very diverse community of different ethnic groups. But what groups are these? How many are there? What similarities and differences do they have? We tried to […]
The Veps – “original Finns”
The Veps were forgotten by science for a long time, until the beginning of the XIX century, when they were “discovered” by the Finnish ethnographer Anders Jugan Sjögren. After visiting […]
Zavolochye is Bjarmia, not Perm the Great (Perem volost)
“For your consideration, we present a map of the Novgorod Republic with volosts depicting those bordering each other. Zavolochye [the lands of the Vepsians] (Modern Arkhangelsk Region – Aut.) and […]
Away from Moscow: Cossackia
The process of inevitable collapse of Russia revives national liberation movements not only in the national subjects of the federation. Nations, nationalities and ethnic groups that have not yet been […]
Saami polytheism
Saami polytheism is a unique reflection of the experience of thousands of years of survival in the conditions of the icy forest tundra. Like any other pagan Tradition of the […]
Kolmo Shtatolt
Famous Yerzya song. Performed by Syres Bolyaen.
What is “The Raspberry Wedge”?
Very often in a public chat you can read a question from people who are still hesitating in their political choice – what does “Raspberry Wedge” mean? Indeed, over the […]