On 10 June, the 12th Mari Song Festival took place on Siukhin field in Hill Mari region, Republic of Mari El. The first Mari Song Festival was in 2002 and the song festival tradition has been adopted from Estonia.
The XIII Estonian Youth Song Festival “Holy is the Land” took place in the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds from 30 June to 2 July. The …
Two former employees of the Foundation for the Preservation and Study of Native Languages of the Russian Federation, the head Vladimir Sobolev and his deputy Dmitry Fedorov, were convicted of sixty criminal charges and sentenced to six years of imprisonment in a high-security colony for causing damage of 44 million rubles, or more than 500,000 euros.
As part of the international year of Livonian heritage, an art exhibition by the painters Andres Koort and Urmo Raus has been opened in Rüki …
Omniva has issued a new stamp to celebrate Finland’s NATO membership. The stamp was unveiled during a presentation at the Finnish Embassy in Tallinn on …
A total of 94 Estonian MPs submitted a draft petition to Riigikogu, the Estonian Parliament, to hold Russia accountable for its war crimes in Ukraine. …
On 19 May, President of Russia Vladimir Putin held a session of the Council for Interethnic Relations, where the Russian state national policy strategy, the integration of the newly occupied regions into the socio-cultural space of Russia and changes in the national policy due to "external dangers and threats" were discussed.
Udmurt musicians Maria Korepanova, Pavel Kutergin and Mari Anna Makeev performed at the Ukrainian Freedom School in Tallinn on 8 June. Fenno-Ugria's project manager Anna Kuznetsova talked about the Finno-Ugric peoples.
The seminar "How to conceptualise Russia" was organised by Fenno-Ugria in Maarjamäe Castle in Tallinn on 31 May. The seminar was supported by the Open Estonia Foundation/Active Citizens Fund and it took place within the framework of the project "Democracy School for Finno-Ugric communities in Estonia".
After many years of work, the Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission handed in its report to the country’s parliament on 1 June. The commission investigated the Norwegianisation policy and its effects on the Saami, Kvens and Forest Finns.
On 25 May, the Russian-Swiss writer, Mikhail Shishkin, was the invited to talk at Open Estonia Foundation’s discussion evening in Tallinn, titled “What Will Happen …
The crisis and traumas related to Russia's aggression in Ukraine affect not only representatives of Finno-Ugric minorities living in Estonia with Russian citizenship, but also Estonians: there is mutual learning. Estonians and Finns, as small nations and Finno-Ugric people, have been forced to adapt to very rapid social changes due to the changed geopolitical situation and the war, and that is not always easy. This was discussed at the OEF/Active Citizens Fund project seminar held on 13 May in Tapa.