{"id":205,"date":"2019-10-27T22:25:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T20:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inyazoro.info\/?p=205"},"modified":"2020-04-24T22:29:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T19:29:37","slug":"interview-with-erzyan-inyazor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inyazoro.info\/?p=205&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Erzyan Inyazor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are glad to offer our readers complete text of interview with <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>&nbsp;Syres\u2019 Boliayen\u2019,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Inyazor <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>(chief elder)<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> of Erzya people,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> undertaken by Erzyan Mastor newspaper.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> The brief variant of conversation can be read in issue <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2116552 <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>(August 28,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> 2019)<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>.<\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><!--more--><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you may know,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Syres\u2019 Boliayen\u2019 <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>(Alexandr Bolkin by passport)<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> was elected Inyazor at Rasken\u2019 Ozks <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>(Ancestral Prayer)<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> that took place at June 13,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> 2019 near village of Chukaly in Bolsheignatovskiy district.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> He was born in village of Papulevo in Ichalkovskiy district and spent his youth in Bolsheignatovskiy district.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> He has been living in Ukraine for forty years already and fought for the country.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> As he says himself,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> \u201cFor Ukraine\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>. His election as people\u2019s Inyazor caused ambiguous reactions among erzuans and still remains a controversial issue:<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> how is it that an <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u201coutsider\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> can be elected Inyazor at Rasken\u2019 Ozks?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our Erzyan readers as well as editorial members wanted to know more about ideas and plans of this man.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> We sent a list of question to him and here that he answered.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2014<strong><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>&nbsp;We wish you health,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Syres\u2019 Boliayen\u2019,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Inyazor of Erzya people!<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/strong><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2014&nbsp;Best of health to all Erzyans!<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Thank you for your questions!<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2014<strong><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>&nbsp;Tell us about yourself.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> How did you end up in Kyiv?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/strong><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2014 Every empire aspires to break internal borders,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> borders between people and their cultures.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Ebery empire hankers standardization,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> because people\u2019s identity and consciousness are grain out of which a dream about their own state system can grow.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Russian empire and Soviet Union were no exeptions too.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> They actively transferred people from one territories to others,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> tried at any cost to destroy cultural connections within national and religious groups.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Although Soviet Union claimed&nbsp;<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> that the aim of this policy is forming of new type of human being <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2013 <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u201chomo soveticus\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> or soviet man,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> actually we have very clear understanding,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> that such policy was continuation of old imperial narrative to transform everybody who lives in USSR into Russians.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> In fact soviet so-called internationalism was based first of all on Russian language and Russian culture which had to be foundation for <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u201cfriendship of nations\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>. Men and women were sent to work,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> to build factories or serve in military thousands of kilometres away from native lands,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> where they were isolated from language environment,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> deprived of possibilities to keep and develop their cultures.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Here,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> say,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> sent an Udmurt to work in Institute of Metal Physics in Kyiv in these times.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Did he really have all opportunities to preserve his Udmurt identity in a city,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> where are no Udmurt kindergardens,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> no Udmurt-speaking schools,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> nowhere to find a single book in Udmurt language,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> even a simple primer?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Other alternative was offered to such man,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> namely to be a transmitter of Russian culture,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> language and identity.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> That\u2019s how people assisted Russification of others,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> undermined borders between countries,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> nations and cultures,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> melting it all in large Russian pot.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This policy affected me personally and my family too.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> After graduation from military school I was sent to Ukraine.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> When Soviet Union began to disintegrate,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> I was in Kyiv,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> and had something of a dilemma here,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> to stay in Kyiv or return to Saransk.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Me and my wife Vera had three little kids at the moment,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> so return was quite a hard option.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> I graduated with honors from my military school and that\u2019s why I was offered to remain here,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> in Institute of Air Forces.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> So we started our life in Ukraine.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2014<strong><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>&nbsp;Looking ahead,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> in your opinion,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> how can we farther keep our language,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> culture?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> How to develop them?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Do you have some program or plan?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/strong><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2014 That\u2019s a good question!<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> In terms of preservation and development,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> of cource.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> But how can it be achieved without reanimation?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We Erzya lack of critical self-esteem.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Honest self-esteem,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> not based on <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u201cyou fool\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> principle!<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Sometimes an extraneous self-perspective will not do us any harm.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> What do I mean?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Before talking about plans and future let\u2019s honestly give answers on following questions.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> How Republic of Mordovia and Erzya people changed in last 30 years?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> We need objective estimation of demographic situation as well as state of Erzyan language and culture.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> What\u2019s left of Mordovia\u2019s sovereignty?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> What is the reason behind this catastrophe?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Only honest self-estimation will enable us to make plans for future.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Otherwise we are doomed to construct new <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u201csand castles\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>, just endless conversations about friendship of nations,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> equality,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> how Erzyan culture flourishes and so on.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Such idle talks we hear from officials Republic of Mordovia for decades already,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> while Erzya don\u2019t have even a single Erzyan gymnasium.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/idel-ural.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/850_6451.jpg\" alt=\"American linguist Jack Rueter and Syres\u2019 Boliayen\u2019, Tallinn \u2013 2019.\n\"\/><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><figcaption>American linguist Jack Rueter and Syres\u2019 Boliayen\u2019,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Tallinn <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2013 2019.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><br><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/figcaption><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/figure><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/div><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m often being accused of having Ukrainian citizenship and not living in Erzyan to date.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Yes,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> really at this very moment I can not return to Motherland.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> However it doesn\u2019t mean that I can\u2019t see and don\u2019t understand situation faced by my Erzya people.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Let me give you an example,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> not just talking about abstract things.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Our situation in Russian Federation is much worse than situation of Hungarians in Ukraine.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Hungarians in Zakarpattia have their own schools,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> colleges and institutes,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> newspapers,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> websites,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> radio and TV stations.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Hungarian political parties work here openly,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> with political campaigning,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> advertisements in Hungarian,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> banners,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> leaflets and so on.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> &nbsp;I have a question <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2013 why we Erzya do not have all this in Russia?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> They say that Hungarians have their own state,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Hungary,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> and it cares about them.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> But wait a moment!<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Does it mean that Russian Federation is inherently alien state for Erzyans?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Does it mean that it can\u2019t be Motherland for Erzya,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> can\u2019t provide the same conditions which Hungary provides for Hungarians?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Maybe I\u2019ve got something wrong?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Aren\u2019t we strangers in Russia?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> So what\u2019s the problem?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Why all these rights are inavialable for Erzya?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russian authorities actively promotes hypocritical idea that <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u201cit\u2019s their own fault\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> that Erzyan language and culture surrender their positions.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> It is often said something like:<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> nobody forbids you to use Erzyan language at home,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> in the kitchen;<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> everything depends on parents,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> because if they do not teach their children Erzyan language,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> then it disappears.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Such <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u201ckitchen limitations\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> are obviously manipulative and discriminative.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> If Russian Federation is the state not only for Russian nation but also for all nations and ethnic groups living here,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> then authorities are under obligation to create all conditions for development and preservation of our cultures.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Exactly to create such conditions,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> but not just to repeat that whole cultures disappear,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> because <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u201cit\u2019s parents\u2019 fault\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>. Yes,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> world becomes global,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> it is getting more and more heavier to keep identity of stateless nations.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> However look here,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> what conditions are provided for stateless nations by civilized states.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> In Spain Catalan and Basque languages and cultures at a level that Erzya can only dream of.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> These countries are monarchies with kings and Russian Federation is still federation with president,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> not a monarch <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>(at least formally)<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>. Even in Great Britain <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>(they also have a queen here)<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> government successfully rescue languages,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> including <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>&nbsp;those with 50-60 active speakers left.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Maybe the most known example is Man language.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> &nbsp;There is special gymnasium on the Isle of Man where subjects are taught in local Man language.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> UK creates motivational system in order to explain parents and students how to revive Man language.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Bodies of local self-government are encouraged to conduct at least some meetings in Man language.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> We can only imagine that someone will raise a question:<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> \u201cWhy don\u2019t members of Government of Republic of Mordovia conduct their meetings in Erzyan language\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>?<\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thus,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> how could we,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> in our current situation with clear understanding that Russian Federation will not treat Erzya in the same light as Britain treats Isle of Man inhabitants,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> still keep and develop Erzyan language and culture?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1)<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Creating modern content in Erzyan language:<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> books,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> websites,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> audio books,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> videos and others like that.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Produce as many information as possible in Erzyan language and upload it into Internet.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> It is nessesary for future development,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> when Erzyan\u2019 Mastor will be in more favourable situation for revival of our identity,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> so we must have some base to build on.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2)<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Demanding from federal and republican authorities to fulfill obligations imposed on them by constitutions of Russian Federation and Republic of Mordovia;<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> creation of complete educational cycle in Erzyan language,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> from children in kindergarden to university students.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3)<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Struggle for real status of Erzyan as official language in Mordovia,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> not just language of greeting speeches at folklore festivals.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Russian language can be used along with Erzyan,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> but not instead of the latter as it happens now.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Our young people will be motivated to study Erzyan only if everybody will know that Erzyan language is required for successful career.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2014<strong><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>&nbsp;What tasks would you formulate for Inyekuzho,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> which will be held soon?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/strong><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2014 Did you just named seventh <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u201cmordovian convention\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> as Inyekuzho?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ten years have passed since fifth Inyekuzho,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> five years have passed since sixth one.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> I\u2019m well acquainted with resolutions of these conventions.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> These are conventions!<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> They basically are the same as conventions of Soviet Communist party!<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Made for making a good picture about happy life of Erzyans and Mokshans.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> \u201cLook here,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> people get together,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> participate,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> authorities are interested\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>.<\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And what has been the outcome?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> First part of every resolution underlines,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> how happy and prosperous Erza and Moksha live in Mordovia,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> how much officials strive for their well-being.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Second half usually tells us how delegates plan to improve life of ordinary people.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> There is a question:<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> what has to be improves if <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u201ceverything is good\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>? Why any of these resolutions does not contain report section,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> telling about what it is exactly achieved since previous convention?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> That\u2019s because we can read here just platitudes like:<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> to ask\u2026 to recommend\u2026 to activate\u2026 to promote\u2026 to improve\u2026 and so on.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/idel-ural.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/rosneft-4.jpg\" alt=\"Syres\u2019 Boliayen\u2019, Kyiv \u2013 2019.\n\"\/><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><figcaption>Syres\u2019 Boliayen\u2019,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Kyiv <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2013 2019.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><br><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/figcaption><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/figure><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do we much of that improvement?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Erzyan language is taught one academic hour per week.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Optionally!<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such conventions must build dialog with authorities in order to communicate about our problems.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Where is at least one Erzyan gymnasium in Saransk?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Where is at least one Erzyan university?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Why there are no monuments of Purgaz in the capital of Republic of Mordovia?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> If conventions don\u2019t resolve these questions,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> then what\u2019s the point of their existence?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why head of administrations as well as other officials <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>&nbsp;do not speak Erzyan or Mokshan <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>&nbsp;in workplaces?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> They just don\u2019t have a desire to do that?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> But it is disrespect to our people,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> it is scornful behavior.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Are they mindless people?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> How do they do their jobs then?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My hypothetical advices for <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u201cmordovian\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> convention will be simple:<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> stop lying to yourselves and to your people.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Things are bad,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> both for Mokshans and Erzyans.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is enough to beg!<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Our right is to demand!<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> It is necessary to force officials,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> not to ask them.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Because their work is paid from budget,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> which is filled by our taxes.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If they afraid to communacate with their superiors and treat <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>[acting Head of the Republic of Mordovia Vladimir]<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Volkov as some kind of diety or sacred being <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>(as buddhists treat cows)<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>, then let them achieve little,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> but real results.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Let at least something to be done!<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> For example,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> audio album of Erzyan fairy-tales or translation of popular world children writers in Erzyan.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> There is an enormous amount of issues where efforts should best be directed!<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> The only thing is,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> that it\u2019s is beneficial to someone just to talk that Erzyans already don\u2019t have any unmet needs;<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> they say <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u201cHow many of these Erzya are still there?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Their numbers are less and less every year\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>. Mordovian officials are able to cry sincerely on funeral of last Erzyans,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> but do not have any desire to open an Erzyan gymnasium.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Let us not play along with such behaviour!<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2014<strong><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>&nbsp;Nowadays you live far from Motherland.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Do you understand how difficult is to work with Erzyan matters?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/strong><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2014 Yes,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> I do live far from Erzyan,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> but exactly this circumstance allows me to talk about such things,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>&nbsp;<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> what Erzya in Russian Federation can not openly express.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> I realize very well how difficult it is to work in this position,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> because our team is working already.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What exactly done by me and by Erzyan diaspore in Ukraine in last few years?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><li>We published a book entitled Sedeise Tarka by Erzyan poet Dmitriy Taganov,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> as well as collection of poems by 24 Erzyan poets,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> named Erzyan Valske,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> 1200 copies of each edition.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> We distribute them free of charge in Erzya established communities.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/li><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><li>Thanks to the efforts of Er\u017aa\u0144 Val society,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> which I head up,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> we selebrated Day of Erzyan language in Kyiv seven times now.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> These were literary readings involving Erzyans from all Ukraine and also guests from Russian Federation.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Few hundreds of people participated in our events.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/li><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><li>I recorded 40 Erzyan songs and declamations.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Some of them <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2013 for example,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Kalmaz\u2019 Letsnema verse <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2013 were recorded in a professional studio.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Lot of these songs were composed with authorial music,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> such as Timon\u2019 Veranen\u2019.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Tundo,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Vergiz Moro,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Chire Yutkso,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Peidema Nurkamorot and so on.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/li><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><li>Whole cycle of educational videos was recorded in Erzyan language with subtitles in different European languages,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> for example,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Tiushtian\u2019 Pshkadema.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> These videos tell about our Erzyan culture and traditions.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/li><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><li>We also produced an entire series of podcasts,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> where I speak in Erzyan language about important trends in international policy.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> For the first time news in Erzyan language were released about world economic tendencies,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> military conflict in Syria and Iraq,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> crisis in Venezuela,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> global warming and scientific discoveries in astronomy.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/li><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><li>For my own money together with Erzyans from Russian Federation we recorded audioversions of some works by Alexander Tikshikin from his book named Urozket\u2019.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/li><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/ul><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are our future plans?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> This year we are going to present our site aimed to popularization of Erzyan language.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> This will be a web-resource,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> where Erzyan-language e-books,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> audiobooks,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> videos and other useful content will be avialable.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/idel-ural.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_7050.jpg\" alt=\"Syres\u2019 Boliayen\u2019 and Khumantsian\u2019 Pirguzh, Kyiv \u2013 2019\n\"\/><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><figcaption>Syres\u2019 Boliayen\u2019 and Khumantsian\u2019 Pirguzh,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Kyiv <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2013 2019<br><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/figcaption><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/figure><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Within Forgotten Voices project we are going to record audiobook with works of Boris Istlyaev.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is that a lot or a little?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Very little!<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> I hope however,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> that with the help of concerned Erzyans we can achieve more!<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2014<strong><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>&nbsp;Russia and Ukraine are <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2013 let\u2019s say it in diplomatic manner <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2013 not friends now.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Maybe Ukrainian authorities simply try to use you with one aim,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> namely disintegration of Russia?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/strong><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2014 It is very ood question!<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> If it is really so,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> then how do you think,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> why exactly does Ukraine try to <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u201cspoil\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Russia?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> And yes,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> it\u2019s quite a rhetoric question.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had already talked and wrote on that matter.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Our national project won\u2019t work,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> if we are going to lie to ourselves.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> In the next month in Kyiv I will take the oath of loyalty to Erzyan people.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> But already now I can look into the eyes of any Erzya and franky say,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> that I will never play around,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> looking for soft answers for hard questions.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> I consider that it is Inyazor\u2019s obligation.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia doesn\u2019t have friendly relations with many other states,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> not only Ukraine.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Lithuania,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> for example.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> But taking away your neighbour\u2019s territories isn\u2019t just unfriendly,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> it is called military aggression.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Yes,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> it is quite usual state for Russian army to occupy something outside Russia,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> claiming that <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u201cwe are not here\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> and simultaneously to be proud of military achievements.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Ukrainians are essentially not an imperialistic nation,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> that\u2019s why it is much easier to find common ground with them than with Russians suffering from phantom pains of <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u201clost territories\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>.<\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> I fought for Ukraine.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Yes,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> I am proud of that I am a lieutenant colonel in Army of Ukraine.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> I protected Ukrainian state on it\u2019s own territories,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> I did not occupy police stations in Voronezh,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> I did not take Russian churches in Tambov.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> I never did anything of that in Russia,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> and the same cannot be said about <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u201crebel leader\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Igor <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u201cStrelkov\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Girkin,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> who is Russian which arrived from Moscow for military occupation of Ukrainian territory.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am proud of my service in Ukrainian Army,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> because I know that Ukrainians fight on their lands and do not violate borders of other states.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> I think that I deserve to present my Erzyan people before Ukrainians and other nations.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Looking on me,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> nobody can say that Erzya are cowards,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> or they are not brave,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> or not strong,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> or passive.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does Ukraine use me?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> For all the time that I live in Ukraine neither SSU operatives nor other officials asked me to make some oral or written statement,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> to call someone,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> to write something or to go somewhere.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> That\u2019s also one of those great things in Ukraine,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> it\u2019s really free country.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> By the way,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> I publicly criticized and still criticizing President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Now please ask yourself:<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> how much Erzyans can publicly criticize Putin,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Volkov?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Khumantsian\u2019 Pirguzh was summoned to Mordovian minister of culture only because minister was unhappy that I was chosen new Inyazor.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2014<strong><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>&nbsp;<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u201cTo be an Inyazor\u201d<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>! What senses and values do these words and this position have for you personally?<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/strong><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2014 To be an Inyazor is to live a life of your people,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> to be ill with their illnesses,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> to lose sleep over their problems,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> to think how to change their life for the better,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> to make decisions and to implement them.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> My mission as Inyazor is to explain Erzyans that we are separate nation which has its own interests,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> and they are often different from interests of Volkov,<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Putin or even interests of Russian Federation.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> We must form our own perspective to the world.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> If we want to find a place in the world then we need to look here in Erzyan manner.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2014<strong><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>&nbsp;Thank you for your answers!<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/em><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/strong><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n\n<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\u2014 Thank you for questions.<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span> Glory to Erzyan people!<span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/p><span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips10','ras\u0301keajgematnen\u0301 \u2014 \u043e\u0431\u0449\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u0434\u0432\u0438\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u044f'); <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips10'><\/span><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are glad to offer our readers complete text of interview with &nbsp;Syres\u2019 Boliayen\u2019, Inyazor (chief elder) of Erzya people, undertaken by Erzyan Mastor newspaper. 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