{"id":569,"date":"2021-10-28T20:21:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T17:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inyazoro.info\/?p=569"},"modified":"2021-10-28T20:21:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T17:21:29","slug":"estonian-pm-is-asked-to-help-with-opening-erzya-gymnasium-in-saransk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inyazoro.info\/?p=569&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Estonian PM is asked to help with opening Erzya gymnasium in Saransk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/span>

Kshumantsian\u2019 Pirguzh,<\/span> a figure of Erzya national movement,<\/span> who has served as Inyazor <\/span>(Chief elder of Erzya people)<\/span> in 1999-2019,<\/span> appealed to Kaja Kallas,<\/span> head of Estonian government.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

In his appeal mr.<\/span> Pirguzh informs about unsuccessful attempts of Erzya to create their own gymnasium in Saransk,<\/span> where Erzya children would have an opportunity to get education in their native language.<\/span> Finding it impossible to defend a legal right to education in one of official languages in Republic of Mordovia with Russian authorities,<\/span> former Inyazor calls upon government of Estonia to help diplomatically and financially.<\/span> It is a question of creation of the world&<\/span>#8217;s first gymnasium with the complete educational cycle in Erzya language.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

In particular,<\/span> Kshumantsian\u2019 Pirguzh asks Kaja Kallas to raise the question of such gymnasium in her next meeting with representatives of Russian government.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

<\/span>\u201cUnfortunately,<\/span> Erzya do not have their own national republic in order to support progress of Erzya people,<\/span> as well as popularization and protection of both Erzya language and culture.<\/span> Republic of Mordovia is a stepmother for us Erzya.<\/span> There is a systematic violation of rights of Erzya people in the republic,<\/span> every aspect of its national police is aimed to assimilation of non-Russian population,<\/span> to elimination of our national identity.<\/span> That\u2019s why we must ask for support from our brothers and sisters,<\/span> Estonians.<\/span> If huge and powerful state,<\/span> what sells oil and gas to the whole world and financially supports Syria and Venezuela,<\/span> don\u2019t have enough funds to establish and support one Erzya gymnasium <\/span>\u2013 then I better ask little,<\/span> but humane Estonia for it\u201d<\/span>, <\/span>\u2013 Pirguzh explains.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

It should be reminded that campaign for Erzya gymnasium in Saransk started in October,<\/span> 2019,<\/span> when Syres\u2019 Boliayan\u2019,<\/span> newly elected\u00a0 Inyazor <\/span>(Chief elder)<\/span>, filed such demand to government of Republic of Mordovia.<\/span> In the same month Petr Tulaev,<\/span> Saransk mayor,<\/span> rejected the idea of the gymnasium and noted that <\/span>\u201cin schools of Saransk,<\/span> especially in areas with large populations of Mordva,<\/span> national languages are taught.<\/span> Children in kindergartens study culture and languages of peoples of Mordovia\u201d<\/span> .<\/span> Already in January 2020 dozens of Erzya families sent an address to Vladimir Volkov,<\/span> head of Republic of Mordovia with a suggestion to create gymnasium in Saransk,<\/span> \u201cwhere Erzya language would not only be taught as a course but also obligatory courses would be taught in our native Erzya language\u201d<\/span>.<\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

<\/span>Kshumantsian\u2019 Pirguzh is professor of mathematics,<\/span> figure of Erzya national movement and human rights activist.<\/span> Inyazor <\/span>(Chief elder)<\/span> of Erzya people <\/span>(1999-2019)<\/span>. In February 2014 he was awarded the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana <\/span>(Fifth Class,<\/span> \u21161108)<\/span> by Toomas Hendrik Ilves,<\/span> president of Estonia,<\/span> for prominent merits in national revival of Erzya.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p><\/span>\n