{"id":16651,"date":"2021-04-23T09:38:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T09:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=16651"},"modified":"2021-04-23T09:38:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T09:38:09","slug":"ethnocide-of-the-indigenous-peoples-of-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/ethnocide-of-the-indigenous-peoples-of-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Erzyan leader first addressed the UN accusing Moscow of the ethnocide of the indigenous peoples of Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Syres\u2019 Boliayen\u2019, the Inyazor (Chief Elder) of the Erzya people, spoke at the 20th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. His report was the first speech at an official UN event delivered in Erzya. Office of Inyazor provided consecutive interpreting from Erzya into English. The address was broadcast on UN Web TV. The speaker sat against the background of two flags \u2013 the national flag of Erzya people and the flag of Ukraine. The Ukrainian flag was next to the Erzya one, because it was the Ukrainian delegation which used its quota to give the floor to a representative of the indigenous people of Russia to speak at the UN, given that the Russian Federation is engaged in active ethnocide of the indigenous peoples. Details of this historic event were also reported on the official website of the Prometheus Security Environment Research Center.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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The Erzyan leader addressed the UN with accusations against Moscow. He called on the international community to increase pressure on the Russian Federation:<\/p>\n

\u201cErzya, as indigenous people in Russia, can survive the COVID-19 pandemic, but not the Russian repressive regime. International pressure on Moscow is the only vaccine that can save us from the last phase of ethnocide”<\/em><\/p>\n

In his speech, Syres\u2019 Boliayen\u2019 criticized the policy of the Russian Federation towards national republics and indigenous peoples:<\/p>\n

“Within the past 30 years, Erzya<\/a> have been turned from a nation of a few million people into a small ethnic group on the brink of complete extinction. Not through war, epidemics or forced deportations. Our neighbors in the Idel-Ural region \u2013 Mokshans, Udmurts, Maris, Chuvash’s, Bashkirs and even Tatars found themselves in a very similar disturbing position. Native peoples in Russia are forbidden to have their own political parties, or even to study their mother tongue in secondary schools. Only dancing in national costumes is tolerated. Those who stand up for their rights are persecuted as extremists and become victims of punitive psychiatry.”<\/em><\/p>\n