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Open call for Kindred Peoples’ Literary Award 2024
The aim of the award is to recognise the work of authors or translators of the literature of kindred peoples without their own statehood. The …
Finno-Ugrian days return this October
The festival reaches its apex on the third Saturday of October – this year on October 15th – the day that the national flags of Estonia fly in honour of our fellow kindred peoples living all around the world.
Artyom Malykh: "Decline of standardized literary Uralic languages will coexist with the promotion of dialects as standardized languages"
On 21 October, Artyom Malykh, well-known Udmurt activist and founder of Uralistica social network, gave a talk on Uralic peoples of Russia at Sugrifest, a …
The Finns celebrate Kalevala Day
Today, on the 28th of February is Kalevala Day, marking the anniversary of the publication of Kalevala, compiled by Elias Lönnrot (1802-1884) from Finnish and Karelian oral folklore and …
'Quite incredible': demand for Indigenous literature goes global
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Indigenous literature has been one of the top-performing categories for local booksellers in 2019, and international publishers are noticing a similar …
Life, death and preserving tradition on an Estonian island of only a few hundred people
Photographer Jeremie Jung’s “Kihnu, the Estonian Isle of Traditions” is a photo documentary project about an island inhabited by only 500 people in the Baltic …
Minister of Culture sent greetings to Finnish and Hungarian ministers on Finno-Ugric Day
The ongoing Estonian Finno-Ugrian Days 2019 are dedicated to the United Nations’ International Year of Indigenous Languages.
Non-Russian Languages Being Pushed Out of Schools in Five Middle Volga Republics
WINDOW ON EURASIA: Since the adoption of a Russian law making the study of non-Russian languages in the republics voluntary, 7×7 blogger Nail Gyylman says …
Finno-Ugrian Days 2019 are dedicated to indigenous languages
The Finno-Ugrian Days 2019 are dedicated to the United Nations’ International Year of Indigenous Languages. Of the estimated 7,000 languages spoken around the world, 2,680 …
Self-Immolation Highlights Controversy over Cultural Rights in Russia
A national debate on minority cultural rights is the backdrop to the death of an academic in the Russian republic of Udmurtia. Published in openDemocracy Damelya …
Udmurt Language Activist Mourned In Russia After Self-Immolation Protest
An academic in central Russia died Tuesday after setting himself on fire over what has been reported as an act of protest over perceived government …
"Did you eat the whole cake?" - a learners experience on studying Estonian
DEEP BALTIC: Estonian has been described as the most difficult Latin-alphabet language for English-speakers to learn. Its fourteen cases, abundance of vowels and unpredictable partitive …