2020
Moscow splitting Finno-Ugric languages to promote assimilation to Russian, Mari linguist says
Moscow is currently promoting the division of the Mari language into two – the Lugo Mari and the Gorno Mari — to reduce the number …
Artyom Malykh: "Decline of standardized literary Uralic languages will coexist with the promotion of dialects as standardized languages"
On 21 October, Artyom Malykh, well-known Udmurt activist and founder of Uralistica social network, gave a talk on Uralic peoples of Russia at Sugrifest, a …
Raisiya Sungurova: "Mari people in Yugra are on the land of our kindred peoples"
Raisiya Sungurova was awarded the Lennart Meri’s Waterfowl prize for her role as Mari community leader in the Yugra region.
International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples 9 August
9 August commemorates the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. It is celebrated around the world and marks the date of the inaugural session …
CIFU congress postponed, but online congress to take place
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CIFU XIII has been postponed to August 2021. However, we will organize a virtual pre-congress in August 2020 (currently …
Postponed Finno-Ugric world congress to be held in Tartu next June
The VIII World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples, which was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, has been rescheduled for June 16-18, 2021, the nonprofit Fenno-Ugria …
Finno-Ugric Capital of Culture 2021 Will Be Announced on June 17
Youth Association of Finno-Ugric Peoples (MAFUN) and URALIC Centre for Indigenous Peoples today announce the start of the competition for the title of Finno-Ugric Capital …
A specially designed Fenno-Ugria euro coin will be emitted in 2021
The two-euro commemorative coin for the Finno-Ugric peoples will use a design by the artists Al Paldrok and Madis Põldsaar. The Eesti Pank Supervisory Board …
The Head of the University of Latvia Livonian Institute receives an international award
Valts Ernštreits, Head of the University of Latvia Livonian Institute, has received the Ilmapuu (World Tree) Award from the Kindred Peoples’ Programme of the Ministry …
The VIII World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples to take place next year
NGO Fenno-Ugria announces that new dates have been set for the VIII World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples, which was postponed due to the global crisis …
Doctoral thesis: Spoken and silenced history of the Yamal Nenets
Arcticcentre.org: Roza Laptander defended a theses about silence in the University of Lapland. Her dissertation is based on the stories of the Nenets reindeer herders …
Estonia commemorates the victims of mass deportations in 1949
From March 25-28, 1949, more than 90,000 people across the Baltics, including more than 20,000 in Estonia, ranging from infants to the elderly, were forcibly …