Similar accusations were leveled against Karelians, Komi, Mari, Mordvins, Udmurts, and Finns living in the USSR. Just as in Alymov’s case, indigenous peoples were accused of creating anti-Soviet ...

So, people went to great lengths to keep those spirits at bay. In Russia, the Mordvins would set out pots of porridge for the Frost Man to protect their crops. And during the medieval era ...

The four most numerous Finno-Ugric peoples are the Hungarians (13-14 million), the Finns (6-7 million), the Estonians (1.1 million) and the Mordvins (744,000). The first three inhabit independent ...

I stress the word partly because to this day the Finno-Ugric-speaking Komis, Maris, Mordvins and Udmurts, alongside the Turkic-speaking Chuvash and (Kazan) Tatars, and the Mongolic-speaking Kalmyks, ...

Immigrants in 1902 entering the United States through Ellis Island (From time to time, Looking in the Cultural Mirror deals with broad topics that require multiple posts-for example, the six part ...

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In contrast, the Caucasus contains geographically coherent communities of 1.5 million Chechens, almost a million each of Avars and Mordvins, and four other communities of approximately half a million.

Hartley examines the relationship between the Muslim Tatars and the Orthodox Christian Russians from the Imperial period to the present day, while also introducing readers to lesser-known ethnic ...

Russians, Jews, Belarusians, Tatars, Ukrainians, Mordvins and Chuvashes were only guilty before Hitler because they were the citizens of the USSR poisoned by the “Communist idea”, and most ...

Astronaut John Glenn photographed in space by an automatic sequence motion picture camera during his flight on Friendship 7. Glenn was in a state of weightlessness traveling at 17,500 mph as these ...