A traveling Estonian National Museum (ERM) exhibition has been held at a customs point in Kingissepp, east of Narva, for some time now and the lack of a single stamp could lead to the whole shipment to be destroyed, said ERM director Alar Karis.
Commentators in Estonia have downplayed a recent statement by Russia s Finno-Ugric umbrella organization which said that its participation in this summer s VIII world congress in Tartu was now off the table, due to the politicization of the event, daily Postimees reports.
Kadri Liik, senior expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told Postimees (link in Estonian) that Russia is involved in sending out signals on all fronts making it clear that interference in its domestic politics is not to be tolerated – which Liik said was far from a sign of strength, however, and more one of weakness, with the down-side that if the withdrawal from the congress goes ahead, the event will be much the poorer for it and many Finno-Ugric peoples from the Russian Federation will miss out.
The Kremlin likely behind Russia’s Finno-Ugric withdrawal statement
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Oliver Loode, an Estonian human rights advocate of the indigenous Uralic peoples, says in an interview with Estonian World that the statement of the Association of the Finno-Ugric Peoples of the Russian Federation that called to boycott the next World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples in Tartu, Estonia, is probably Kremlin’s work, with instructions possibly coming straight from the president’s administration.
Oliver Loode, the managing director of the Otepää, Estonia-based URALIC Centre that promotes and protects the language and cultural rights of Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic peoples of Eurasia, knows the indigenous people of Russia well. He has worked with indigenous peoples since 2009, after attending a Finno-Ugric youth forum in Kudymkar in Perm Region, Russia, as a speaker. Loode also initiated the Finno-Ugric Capitals of Culture programme that under the leadership of URALIC Centre cont
April 19, 2021Lausanne
Part 1 in a series of articles based upon the Lausanne North American Listening Call. Ed Stetzer and Josh Laxton Image: Lausanne North America
As you may be aware, the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center also houses the regional offices of Lausanne North America, which is 1 of 12 regions part of the Lausanne Movement. Billy Graham saw the need for evangelicals to unite towards the task of world-wide evangelization. This desire and dream led to the First International World Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne Switzerland in July 1974 and the birth of the Lausanne Movement.
Since 1974, there have been two other World Congresses that have met Manilla, Philippines in 1989 and Cape Town, South Africa in 2010. As part of the process of preparing for the World Congress in 2024 the Lausanne Movement has been hosting listening calls for each region to discuss five questions. Lausanne North American held our listening call on March 3 with close