OpenDemocracy.net reports [1]: “In their remote forest republic 400 miles east of the Moscow, the pagan Mari people are once again being harassed by the authorities. […] Ethnically kin to the Finns and Hungarians, their profoundly ecological religious worldview challenges Russian-led designs on their republic’s natural resources.”
Russia: Mari Paganism and Charges of “Extremism”
· Written by Veronica Khokhlova
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