The Conservative People’s Party of Estonia EKRE plans to establish a party group in Helsinki by the end of October, YLE News reports. The political group’s mandate will be to represent the interests of Estonians living and working in Finland.

The department on affairs of indigenous ethnic minorities of the North, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, is receiving applications for participation in the contest for the special awards of Prokopiy Saltykov, Leonid Laptsuy and Sergey Irikov for the best coverage of themes on preservation and development of cultural heritage of indigenous northerners in printing editions in native languages, IA "Sever-Press" reports.

President Toomas Hendrik Ilves addressed the United Nations World Conference on Indigenous Peoples on Monday in New York, ERR News reports.

President of the Norwegian Sàmi Parliament, Aili Keskitalo, presses the alarm bell to world leaders meeting in New York about how Russian authorities harass its indigenous peoples, BarentsObserver.com reports.

After a week of test run, on Monday a new Hungarian centre opened in Moscow to receive visa applications of people wishing to enter the Schengen area, MTI reports.

The direction of Syktyvkar State University intends to organize the courses of Hungarian language in the University. The rector of SyktSU Marina Istihovskaya told about it during answering the questions of media centre FINUGOR in the media-forum “Clouds” on the multi festival Ybitsa.

Valentina Sovkina was on her way from Lovozero onRussia’sKola Peninsulato the UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, BarentsObserver.com reports.

The film crew of the film studio "Lennauchfilm" (Leningrad studio of popular science and educational films) arrived to Salekhard. It will start making the documentary film "Ilibembyortya" (the Nenets god). About it IA «Sever-Press» reports.

In Izhevsk, in the Udmurt state philharmonic hall on September 26-27 the First international musical festival of actual Finno-Ugric music "TUALA FEST" will pass, the social network Uralistica reports.

The Finnish delegation of the Finno-Ugric people in Petrozavodsk on September 3-4 nominated the offers on democratization and increase of overall performance of the VII World congress of finno-ugric people which will take place in Lahti (Finland) in 2016.

The president and the former rector of Petrozavodsk State University Victor Vasilyev urged to return to Karelia the representatives of the Baltic-Finnish people of the republic who have gone to Finland. The scientist declared about it at the conference of the Finno-Ugric people which is taking place in Petrozavodsk on September 3-4, the chairman of the Karelian congress Anatoly Grigoryev reported to FINUGOR media center.

The acting governors in the Komi Republic and the Nenets Automous Okrug both secured new terms with more than 75 percent of the votes in Sunday’s elections, BarentsObserver.com reports.

At the international conference in Petrozavodsk it was raised a question of the right of the indigenous Finno-Ugric and Samoyed people on using the earth, the wood and access to traditional resources for life support. The forum takes place in the capital of Karelia on September 3-4 for the discussion of implementation of decisions VI of the World congress of the Finno-Ugric people which has taken place in Hungary in 2012.

"The life of Pitirim Aleksandrovich is the best example of what can be achieved by an ordinary person born in the province, when he set a goal and hangs on by the eye brows. This is an example for young people that our land is capable of and will always bring up people whom Russia and the world be proud of," said Vyacheslav Gaizer, the Head of the Republic of Komi at the ceremony of opening the monument to Pitirim Sorokin, the native of the Republic of Komi and the prominent sociologist.