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Pagan survival in former USSR
http://www.allnewsweb.com/page8998996.php
The Mari are a Finno-Ugrian people along the Volga river in the former Soviet Union. They are one of the last pagan peoples of Europe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_people
The republic of Mari El is located in the Volga region of the former USSR. The Mari people make up approximately 42% of the total population of the republic. During Csarist and Soviet rule they were subject to heavy Russification policies. The policies continue under the current president who has ordered the closing of several Mari language newspapers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_El
The Mari now keep a website (translated below) in order to make their situation known to the larger world
http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&u=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2emari%2del%2ename%2f2008%2f03%2f24%2fsobranie%5fdukhovnykh%5fliderov%2ehtml

Naoi Beannachtai,
Eremon

The Mighty Dead

What subject is best when one begins a thing?
Not hard. It is best to recite the lineage of our fathers and mothers. But for them, we would not have known the world.

In what manner, time, and place were your ancestors to be found?
Not hard. In the manner of the mighty Fir Bolg, in the time of Oengus of the spear, in the Island of the Blessed. From Oengus were engendered the Corcu Lugaid and their brother tribes. From the Corcu Lugaid sprung the victorious UiCobhthaigh. From the UiCobhthaigh of unconquered fame was my Grandmother O'Coffey to come forth, and from my Grandmother O'Coffey was I to come.

Naoi Beannachtai,
Eremon