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Fenno-Ugria Foundation announces the 2024 Lennart Meri Waterfowl Fund Scholarship Competition with a deadline of 15 September 2024.

The anniversary, as with all republican anniversaries of the Russian Federation, has been increasingly downplayed and adjoined with other themes.

The Veps cultural festival was held on 8 June. The festival has been held since 1987.

Fenno-Ugria will participate in the Paide Opinion Festival in the area of Cultural Richness with a panel ‘The nation on the display window and on …

The VII All-Russian Finnougrist Conference 'Modern Finno-Ugristics: science-society-culture' took place in the Mari National Theatre in the capital of the Republic of Mari El, Yoshkar-Ola, on 27-30 June.

Fenno-Ugria's seminar 'Fate of the Finno-Ugric peoples: its substantiation in culture and the political reality' is now available to watch online. The seminar was organised in the framework of Tartu24 Finno-Ugric Days.

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 title was announced on 29 June 2024 in Kuhmo, Finland. Narva is the 11th Finno-Ugric Capital of Culture.

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.

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.

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