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As of November 2024, Nikolai Merkushkin, who led the Republic of Mordovia from 1995 to 2012, will no longer be the representative of the Russian …

On 10 April, a court in the Oktyabr district of the city of Saransk handed down a two-year suspended sentence to the national activists Yevgeny …

From 9 to 11 October, the 8th Congress of the Mordvin (Erzya and Moksha) People, more precisely called the 8th Congress of the Interregional Social Organization of the Mordvin (Erzya and Moksha) People "Consolidation of the Mordvin People and Strengthening the Unity of the Russian People in the Face of Contemporary Challenges", was held in Saransk.

Grigory Musalyov (Kshumantsyan Pirguzh, 19.11.1940-22.08.2024) was a leader of the Erzya national movement. He was born in the Republic of Mordovia, in the village of …

On the third Sunday of May, which this year fell on 19 May, the Russian Federation celebrated the first Komi Language and Literature Day, which became a national holiday in 2023.

On 16 April, the Erzya Language Day is celebrated, as decided by the Foundation for Saving the Erzya Language, which was set up in 1993 to support the Erzya national movement. The Foundation itself was named after the linguist Anatoly Ryabov (1894-1838), whose birthday, 16 April, became the date for the celebration of the day in 1994.

Nuyan Vidyaz (Yevgeny Chetvergov) was one of the founders of the Mordvin (Erzya and Moksha) national organisation Mastorava in 1989. In 1993, however, he felt that the Erzya needed to organise separately. He was one of the founders of the Erzya Language Foundation (1993-2019). From 1994 to 2017, he was editor-in-chief of Erzyan Mastor, a newspaper published by the Foundation.

Dmitry Tsygankin (25 October 1925–21 November 2023), a linguist from Mordovia, has passed away. He was born in the village of Mokshalei in the Chamzino …

The FSB has opened a criminal case against what it calls an extremist organisation founded by ethnic nationalists.

The Karelian language revitalisation project has received funding from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland to continue the programme.

This year, there has been progress in developing modern software for the Uralic languages. Programmes related to Udmurt and Mari are being developed, in addition to a Uralic-language machine translation engine at the University of Tartu.

Since 1993, April 16 has been celebrated as the Erzya Language Day. Some years ago, the day was changed in the Russian Federation to the Mordvin Language Day.