On the opening morning of the 6th Finno-Ugric World Congress in Siófok, Hungary, in September 2012, as the delegations were settling in at the Hotel Azur, uninvited guests – Erzya activists – marched into the hotel lobby. They carried a large Erzya flag and their message was that they should be represented at the congress as a separate people, not as part of the Mordvinian people constructed by the Russian authorities.
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On the opening morning of the 6th Finno-Ugric World Congress in Siófok, Hungary, in September 2012, as the delegations were settling in at the Hotel Azur, uninvited guests – Erzya activists – marched into the hotel lobby. They carried a large Erzya flag and their message was that they should be represented at the congress as a separate people, not as part of the Mordvinian people constructed by the Russian authorities.