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Untitled section (Meadow Mari dictionary)

A link to a short Meadow Mari dictionary at http://www.uta.fi/~km56049/mari/mariengvocab.html
Mari-El related resources at http://mari-el.ucoz.ru/load/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.160.84.229 (talk) 21:09, 7 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Mari people

"Many ethnic Mari activists live under fear of violence. The Mari activist and chief editor Vladimir Kozlov was badly beaten after he published criticism toward Leonid Markelov's politics."

Wrong acccents here. It may happen (and happens) to a person of any ethnicity. Leonid Markelov himself is Chuvash (as far as I heard), Chuvashs are another indigenous ethnicity. It's just a coincidance that Vladimir Kozlov is Mari. Russian-language opposition papers are being closed and ethnic Russian (by the way, most "Russians" in Mari El are métis) oppositioners are being exerted pressure as well. Journalists try to make some dirty nationalist sensation out of it. Very bad. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.40.108.213 (talk) 12:37, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, actually specifically Mari ethnicity is opressed in comparison to the Russian one. Not only political activists are threatened (and not only separaticls at all), but also the culture, religion (the only indigenous religion in Europe left!) and languages are being subdued.

Markelov is officially Russian ( http://www.chuvash.ru/node/101 ), he was born in Moscow in 1963 and came to Mari El only in 1986 after University to work as military prosecutor. 95.26.49.182 (talk) 02:39, 25 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]