Finno-Ugric peoples in Russia

Chairman of All-Russian Mari Ushem (Mari Union) Anatoly Radygin explains the dynamics of the Mari social movement. The foundation of the All-Russian Mari movement is the Mari Ushem in Mari El.

The first Khanty poetess and female journalist, Maria Voldina (Vagatova, 28 December 1936 – 15 February 2026), has passed away. She devoted her entire life …

17 February is the Komi-Permyak Literary Language Day in the Russian Federation, celebrated since 2010. The purpose of this holiday is to popularise the Komi-Permyak language.

Aleksei Beznosikov (31 January 1947 – 14 February 2026), a public and political figure in the Komi Republic, has passed away. In the 1990s, he …

President of the Association of Small Indigenous Peoples of Russia (РАЙПОН), Alexander Novyukhov, denounces indigenous activists of Russia as extremists and defends the government's actions against them.

On 11-12 January 1991, the first Komi People's Congress was held. The Congress was attended by over 400 delegates and guests from all cities and districts of the republic. Also, representatives of the Komi people from the Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, and Tyumen oblasts, the Nenets and Komi-Permyak autonomous districts, the republics of Mari El and Udmurtia, and Moscow were present.

A new Russian-Komi-Permyak dictionary containing over 21,000 words was presented at the Komi-Permyak Institute for the Advancement of Education in Kudymkar. The last such dictionary …

Komi journalists and public figures believe that the license of the national television channel OTR (a Russian national television channel financed from the state budget) should be changed so that the channel would also broadcast programmes in the Komi language.

On 26 January in Strasbourg, the Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) approved a list of 15 members for a …

At the end of the year, several searches were conducted in the regions of the Russian Federation among defenders of the rights of indigenous peoples. …

Before the New Year, on 17 December, the Basmanny District Court of Moscow ruled to place Daria Egereva, a representative of the Selkup people and …

After six years of work, village signs in the Izhorian language using Latin letters were installed in the Leningrad Oblast. Half a hundred village signs were placed in the territory of the Vistina (Вистино) village council, with the Izhorian language alongside Russian. The signs were placed not only in the current Izhorian villages, but also in places where Izhorians used to live more densely.