{"id":192,"date":"2019-09-02T21:20:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T18:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inyazoro.info\/?p=192"},"modified":"2020-04-24T21:21:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T18:21:20","slug":"mordovian-authorities-were-demanded-to-establish-erzyan-gymnasium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inyazoro.info\/?p=192&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Mordovian authorities were demanded to establish Erzyan gymnasium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/span>

Syres\u2019 Boliayen\u2019,<\/span> Inyazor <\/span>(chief elder)<\/span> of Erzya people,<\/span> appealed to government of Republic of Mordovia with a requirement to establish an Erzyan gymnasium in Saransk.<\/span> He is convinced that Finno-Ugric peoples of Russia on the verge of total extinction because of Moscow\u2019s aggressive assimilation policy.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cOur people are under powerful assimilatory pressure.<\/span> Lot of young Erzya in their 20s or 30s <\/span>\u00a0know the mother tongue only at primitive colloquial level.<\/span> They are not able to write in Erzya language.<\/span> Others do not know native language at all.<\/span> This influences young families even in completely Erzya-populated villages.<\/span> Russification goes on such a great scale that it is just enough to retain current situation for final elimination of our language.<\/span> They say:<\/span> teach your children at home,<\/span> speak Erzya language in families!<\/span> What a terrific cynicism!<\/span> Enormous sums of budget money are allocated for development of Russian language,<\/span> but Erzyan language is supposed to be maintained just in families.<\/span> Erzyan gymnasium is an urgent medication for our nation.<\/span> If there is no gymnasium then there will not be any development of language,<\/span> literature,<\/span> education!<\/span> Moscow can just wait yet another 15-20 years for <\/span>\u201cfinal solution\u201d<\/span> to become dreadful reality not only for Erzyans but also for Mari and Udmurts.<\/span> I suppose that Albert Razin realized this very well.<\/span> For this very reason he commited self-immolation.<\/span> We simply do not have enough time!<\/span>\u201d<\/span>, <\/span>\u2013 Syres\u2019 Boliayen\u2019 commented reasons of the appeal.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

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On September 19,<\/span> 2019 Erzyan Inyazor appealed Eerik-Niiles Kross,<\/span> member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from Estonia,<\/span> with a request to initiate an estimation of national policy in Russian Federation as well as observance of human rights,<\/span> particularly rights of indigenous Finno-Ugric peoples to receive education in their mother tongues.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

On September 10,<\/span> 2019 Albert Razin,<\/span> Udmurt scientist,<\/span> accomplished an act of self-immolation in Izhkar <\/span>(rus.<\/span> Izhevsk)<\/span>, capital city of Udmurt Republic.<\/span> He demanded to protect Udmurt nation and its language from extinction.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

On January 2019 Council of Europe Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities criticized Russia for its national policy.<\/span> Experts expressed deep disturbance because of <\/span>\u201cgrowing prevailing of Russian\u201d<\/span> together with <\/span>\u201cabsence of effective support national minorities\u2019 languages <\/span>\u201c.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n