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David Leask looks at the people who make up the Russian Federation.

Kremlin’s Geopolitical Fears Divide Finno-Ugric Peoples Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 100 June 23, 2021 06:13 PM Age: 11 hours Participants of this year's VIII World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples. (Source: VIII World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples, Facebook) The eighth meeting of the World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples took place in Tartu, Estonia, on June 16–18. These congresses, which are held in a different city every four years, are also political summits, usually attended by presidents of the world’s three Finno-Ugric-majority countries—Finland, Estoni...

The Russian parliament’s lower chamber, the State Duma, has approved in its third and final reading a controversial bill that would allow the government to regulate the basic pillars of minority languages in the country, including indigenous ethnic groups from Siberia and the Far East.

Komi activists rally in support of their indigenous language. (file photo) He drew the distinction between the word "Russky," which the judge used and which refers to an ethnic Russian person and the Russian language, among other things, and the word "Rossiisky" -- which refers to a citizen of Russia of any ethnicity and is part of the country's formal name, the Russian Federation. In English, both words mean "Russian." For non-Slavic citizens of the Russian Federation, that's an important distinction. "For us in Russia, everything is 'Rossiisky.' I have the right to speak my native language,...