5 Svetlana Davydova, 24, student and ballet dancer. "My mother is Mari, so I understand the language, but I can barely speak it. I currently don’t go to the sacred groves but I have been there a ...

Activists in Russia's Tatarstan and Mari El republics were celebrating the Tatar and Mari languages on April 26 as part of events marking Language Day.

The republic is landlocked, remote and the 600,000-odd ethnic Mari are outnumbered by Russians. But it was urgent, he argued, to save the Mari language and culture from extinction. Television and ...

The republic's rulers have purged ethnic Mari officials and sharply cut Mari-language media and education. Mari activists have suffered beatings, and one suspicious death.

Tatar, Bashkir, Mari, Udmurt and Yakut languages are also available to users now. Yandex continues to add other languages of the country's peoples to its services, as well as improve the quality of ...

Celebrated photographer Meeri Koutaniemi, music collective ÄÄninen and three local artists came together on Friday night in Rovaniemi to celebrate and highlight the culture of the Mari, a Finno-Ugric ...