Tag: Udmurt
Scholar Self-Immolates Over Language Extinction
An academic activist, Albert Razin, died in Russia after setting himself on fire in a political protest about government policy surrounding his native Udmurt language. According to the Moscow Times, the man self-immolated outside the State Council building in Izhevsk, and held a banner that read, "If my language dies tomorrow then I'm ready to die today."
Razin committed the...