Summer School in Mari Language and Culture

Yoshkar-Ola, Republic of Mari El, Russian Federation
July 6-26, 2009.

Mari State University is happy to announce annual Summer School in Mari Language and Culture organized by the Department of Mari Language and Literature – Institute of Finno-Ugric Studies, and International Office of Mari State University.

New Russian Patriarch has Finno-Ugric Roots

Like his seventeenth century predecessor Nikon whose wide-ranging reforms of the church sparked the Great Schism in Russian Orthodoxy, Kirill I, who was enthroned as patriarch in Moscow yesterday, comes from a family which has its roots in the Finno-Ugric nations of the Middle Volga.