The regional department of FSB for the Republic of Mordovia reported on the “disclosure of an extremist community.” As a result of a series of searches that took place on October 17-20 in Mordovia and neighboring regions with the involvement of members of the Russian National Guard and the members of the MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs), the following was confiscated:
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On October 19 we were forced to convene an urgent meeting of the Council of Elders in connection with the wave of arrests of Erzya that began in the Russian Federation.
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On June 15, 2023, in Zubova Polyana work settlement (Republic of Mordovia), a Japanese SUV which belonged to the head of the settlement Sergey Lyapunov was set on fire. The responsibility for the arson was claimed by the Erzya resistance unit Od Vij. In spite of the wide public response to this event in Mordovia and beyond, local and republican authorities refuse to comment on the matter, trying not to draw attention once again to the topic of the officials’ windfall gains and to the scandal over the construction of a landfill site in the Zubovo-Polyansky District.
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the Council of Elders of the Erzya people
DECREE
“On recognition of the Holodomor (The Great Famine) of 1932-1933 in Ukraine as an act of genocide of the Ukrainian people”
In the Estonian city of Otepää, the Erzya National Congress, convened in exile due to the intensifying repressions in the Russian Federation, completed its work. The delegates, after heated discussions and disputes, adopted high-profile resolutions: on new goals and objectives of the national movement, which include the struggle for independence and the secession of the Erzya territories from the Russian Federation, the approval of the desired borders, as well as the key principles for building a new state entity.
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