[LINK] More on the Mari

[rfmcdonald]

Finland's Helsingin Sanomat reports that the Russian Federation has rejected the European Parliament's recent resolution on the situation of the Mari people. Responding to claims that the Mari, a Volga Finnic minority, are being persecuted by a the reactionaries controlling the government of the Mari autonomous republic, the Russian Foreign Ministry has claimed that Mari as a population are not likely to be victims of criminal actions, made the now-traditional counterallegations about the positionsw of Russophones in Estonia and Latvia, and claimed that the Parliament lacked the quorum necessary to come to a decision.