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The deceased President of the Republic of Estonia will go down in the history of our country as a statesman who was one of the …

The Yoshkar-Ola City Court fined Mari pensioner, poet and national activist Yuri Blagodarov 400,000 roubles (€4,000) for discrediting the Russian army and inciting hatred. The …

Information from the Uralic Centre concerned the selection of Narva as the 2025 Finno-Ugric Capital of Culture.

The 12th All-Russian Congress of the Mari People was held at the National Drama Theatre of the Republic of Mari El from 31 October to 2 November.

In September, local parliamentary elections were held in Mari El, which were overwhelmingly won by the United Russia party that won 45 out of 48 seats. Two seats belong to the Communist Party and one to the Liberal Democratic Party.

The Executive Board of the Saami Parliament in Finland recommended the election committee to be reappointed ahead of the 24 June repeat elections.

In the Republic of Mari El, Mari is the mother tongue of 7,400 pupils, which is nearly 9% of the total number of schoolchildren: of the 248 general education schools in the Republic of Mari El, Mari is taught as a mother tongue in 81 schools.

Alexander Stubb, the President of Finland, will be on a state visit to Estonia from 27 to 29 May.

The Supreme Administrative Court of Finland decided that the vote must be considered invalid due to a significant amount of individuals omitted from the election list.

On 23 March, the general meeting of the Mari Republic regional social organisation Mari Ushem was held in Yoshkar-Ola, this time in a commercial venue. The republican, state-funded central institution for national organisations, the 'Friendship of Nations' (Дружба народов), did not provide a venue for the meeting.

On 23 January, the Mari director of the Mari National Theatre turned 70 years. A festival of his plays will begin in February in honour of the significant date.

Last December, the Finnish Government submitted a proposal to Parliament to amend the law on the Saami Parliament. The aim is to promote the realisation of the right of self-determination of the Saami and to improve the working conditions of the Saami self-government and the Saami collections, especially with regard to language and culture. The proposal implements Petter Orpo's government programme and has been drafted in cooperation with the Saami Parliament.