{"id":809,"date":"2026-10-10T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T08:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inyazoro.info\/?p=809"},"modified":"2026-10-10T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T08:15:58","slug":"erzan-mastor-is-no-labour-reservoir-for-metropolitan-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inyazoro.info\/?p=809&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Er\u017aa\u0144 Mastor is no labour reservoir for metropolitan capital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/span>

STATEMENT BY ATYA\u0143 EZEM
<\/span>9 October 2026<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

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In 2026,<\/span> the authorities of the Republic of Mordovia raised the quota for foreign workers from 147 in 2025 to 854.<\/span> After cuts in October,<\/span> 578 slots remain <\/span>\u2014 still nearly four times the 2025 figure.<\/span> Two-thirds of them have been earmarked for citizens of India.<\/span> At the same time,<\/span> the republic\u2019s tripartite labour commission instructed the Ministry of Social Protection and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to <\/span>\u201ccalculate\u201d<\/span> the share of foreigners in the republic\u2019s workforce <\/span>\u2014 implementing a federal directive on <\/span>\u201cworking with compatriots and foreigners who share Russian spiritual and moral values.<\/span>\u201d<\/span> The contents of this procedure have not been disclosed to the public.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

Behind the figures and the bureaucratic language lies a strategic choice made by the centre in Moscow.<\/span> While schools,<\/span> clinics,<\/span> clubs and houses of culture are being shut down in Erzyan,<\/span> Mokshan and Tatar villages;<\/span> while bus routes are being cut and healthcare,<\/span> education,<\/span> utilities and local infrastructure are left to decay;<\/span> while the young people of our indigenous peoples are pushed out of the region in search of work and a future <\/span>\u2014 the vacancies and the social gaps left behind are being filled by labour migrants from Central and South Asia,<\/span> brought in by large employers,<\/span> dozens and hundreds at a time.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

This is not a coincidence.<\/span> It is a single policy with two faces.<\/span> Money flows from our land to Moscow.<\/span> In return,<\/span> our schools and hospitals are closed,<\/span> and our villages empty out.<\/span> That empty space is filled by workers who are not taught our languages and can be paid less.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

Two parties benefit:<\/span> metropolitan capital,<\/span> which needs cheap labour it can keep without rights,<\/span> and the central state in Moscow,<\/span> which finds it easier to govern a population with no roots and no language of its own than living Erzyans,<\/span> Mokshans,<\/span> Tatars and Russians.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

Everyone else loses.<\/span> The indigenous peoples lose,<\/span> because language and life drain out of our villages.<\/span> The region\u2019s Russian workers lose,<\/span> because their wages are pushed down.<\/span> And the new arrivals lose:<\/span> they are brought here not for their own future,<\/span> but as temporary hands <\/span>\u2014 without rights,<\/span> and without any real chance of becoming part of this land.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

<\/span>Er\u017aa\u0144 Mastor is not a colony and not a reservoir of cheap labour.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> It is the land of the Erzyans,<\/span> Mokshans,<\/span> Tatars,<\/span> Russians and other peoples who have lived here for generations.<\/span> Any migration policy on this territory must proceed from their interests <\/span>\u2014 not from the needs of big capital and the federal centre.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

<\/span>The current policy is a tool of assimilationist pressure.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Importing hundreds and thousands of workers under no obligation to learn Erzyan or Mokshan,<\/span> and with no stake in the culture or life of the region,<\/span> is not <\/span>\u201cintegration.<\/span>\u201d<\/span> It is a mechanism for dissolving the indigenous peoples.<\/span> What the policy of closing national schools failed to finish,<\/span> demographic engineering is finishing now.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

<\/span>The root of the problem lies in the economy,<\/span> not in the migrants.<\/span><\/strong><\/span> As long as the republic\u2019s revenues flow to Moscow;<\/span> as long as the social infrastructure of our villages is dismantled;<\/span> as long as our young people have no work and no prospects at home <\/span>\u2014 any <\/span>\u201clabour shortage\u201d<\/span> will be met by importing people from outside.<\/span> The only honest way out is to restore to the republic control of its own budget,<\/span> its own economy,<\/span> and its own social policy.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

Therefore we demand:<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

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  1. <\/span>An immediate halt to the issuance of work permits to foreign nationals on the lands of Er\u017aa\u0144 Mastor<\/strong><\/span> \u2014 until the republic\u2019s social infrastructure has been restored,<\/span> until decent employment for local residents has been secured,<\/span> and until migration policy has been brought into line with the interests of the region\u2019s indigenous peoples.<\/span><\/li><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>
  2. <\/span>A full public account<\/strong><\/span> from the republic\u2019s authorities:<\/span> on whose request and in whose interest the quota was raised from 147 to 854 slots;<\/span> which specific enterprises are drawing in this labour,<\/span> and through what budgetary and infrastructural decisions.<\/span><\/li><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>
  3. <\/span>An immediate end to the dismantling of social infrastructure<\/strong><\/span> in Erzyan,<\/span> Mokshan and Tatar villages:<\/span> the closure of schools,<\/span> clinics,<\/span> clubs and houses of culture,<\/span> and the gutting of transport and municipal services.<\/span><\/li><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>
  4. <\/span>The return to the republic of its own revenues<\/strong><\/span>, and of the right to determine its own social,<\/span> economic and migration policy.<\/span><\/li><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>
  5. <\/span>Mandatory teaching of Erzyan and Mokshan<\/strong><\/span> in every school of the region <\/span>\u2014 including for the children of those who come here to live and to work.<\/span> If someone comes to this land to make a life here,<\/span> they are obliged to learn its languages and to respect its peoples.<\/span> If they are brought here temporarily and stripped of rights,<\/span> as a mere working tool,<\/span> that is a crime <\/span>\u2014 against them and against our land.<\/span><\/li><\/span>\n<\/ol><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

    Er\u017aa\u0144 Mastor belongs to the Erzyans,<\/span> Mokshans,<\/span> Tatars,<\/span> Russians and other peoples who have lived on this land for generations.<\/span> We have no quarrel with those whom metropolitan capital brings to our land <\/span>\u2014 but neither do we intend to surrender our land,<\/span> our language or our future.<\/span> It falls to us to keep this land ours,<\/span> and to see that those to whom it belongs decide for themselves who comes here to live and work,<\/span> and on what terms.<\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

    <\/span>Vejs\u00eb,<\/span> er\u017aat,<\/span> vijev\u0165ano!<\/span> \u2014 Together,<\/span> Erzyans,<\/span> we are strong!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>

    <\/span>Atya\u0144 Ezem<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/span>\n