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The Day of the Livonian Flag is on 18 November 2024. On this day, the Livonian flag is flown in different places across Latvia. Livonian places are a current theme, because this year saw the publication of the Livonian place name catalogue (Lībiešu vietvārdu katalogs).

The aim of the Kindred Peoples' Programme's Literary Award is to recognise the work of authors or translators of the literature of kindred peoples without their own statehood

This year, David Kroik, a Saami linguist, was awarded the Kindred Peoples’ Programme’s Uralic Ethnic Studies Award for his dissertation ‘The construction of spaces for …

The Livonian Culture Days are organised for the ninth time in Ventspils. The Culture Days take place between 11-12 October.

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 …

Kindred People’s Programme calls for nominations for the Uralic Ethnic Studies Award 2024 and for the Scientific Research published in a Uralic Language Award 2024. The aim of these …

The winner of the 2024 Kindred Peoples' Programme's World Tree Award is the Hungarian Finno-Ugric and kindred people activist Szilárd Tibor Tóth.

The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug is the only part of the Russian Federation where support is provided to young indigenous families for the construction of shelters.

Rapper Yevgeny Anyamov, who records his songs in Mansi, has opened his own music studio.

The publication introduces just over a dozen Livonian poets from the 18th century to the present day. A short biography can be found under each author.

The second-instance court of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug refused to recognise a resident of Urai town and her children as representatives of the Mansi.

At the end of last year, sad news came out of Udmurtia of the passing of the eminent Udmurt linguist and Finnougrist Valei Kelmakov (14 January 1942–28 December 2023).