Tatars in Finland dating. Russians are Finns. Ukrainians are Tatars. "Halal eggs and halal Coca-Cola are pure speculation"

RUSTAM MINNIKHANOV IS INVITED TO HOMELAND NOKIA

Finnish President Tarja Halonen arrived in Kazan today. In the process of communicating with the leadership of Tatarstan, the guest showed an amazing awareness of the affairs of the Tatar community in Finland. The President of the Republic of Tatarstan and the head of Suomi came to the conclusion that Finnish business should be given a "green light" in Tatarstan.

HOW WELCOME IS FINNISH?

Today at the Kazan airport the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov met the President of Finland Tarju Halonen. She visited the capital of Tatarstan as part of her official visit to Russia. The head of Finland flew to Kazan from Moscow, where she met with the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

The head of the republic greeted the honored guest in Finnish and shook hands. She was offered to taste bread with salt and chak-chak. In Kazan, the guest is planning to visit Halonen IT-Park and Kazan Federal University, where she will be awarded with distinctions for the title of Honorary Doctor of Kazan University.

But before that, the President of Finland was taken to the Kremlin, where she visited the Kul Sharif mosque and the Cathedral of the Annunciation. Imam-khatib Ramil Khazrat Yunusov proudly showed the prayer halls of the temple, showing another Tatarstan know-how - balconies for tourists, which allow you to follow the Muslim prayer without participating in it. Another pride of the hazrat was the Koran in Finnish, which was donated to the mosque by the Finnish Tatars.

WHERE DO FINNS LOOK FOR WIVES?

As soon as the talk turned to the Tatars, the President of Finland perked up and immediately made an excursion into the history of the Tatar community in Finland, which appeared here in the 19th century. “Tatars live well with us, however, they come to Kazan for their wives,” Tatar-inform quotes the distinguished guest. Remarkably, the official delegation includes Okan Dahir - leader of the Tatar community in Finland. It is known that the Tatar community in the country of Suomi is not numerous (there are only about 1000 Tatars here), but at the same time it is a fairly influential group.

By the way, yesterday Halonen at a press conference in Moscow named the main reasons for her visit to Kazan, said that visiting the capital of Tatarstan is an opportunity to get to know life in the Russian regions better.

“We Finns need to remember that Russia is not only Moscow and the region closest to us,” Halonen said. Earlier, according to regional St. Petersburg media, the President of Finland said that she was also interested in Tatarstan in the light of the fact that a small, prosperous Tatar minority lives in the country of Suomi, who are mainly engaged in trade and have achieved considerable success in this business.

SMALL BUT POWERFUL

Despite the small size of the Tatar community, which is mainly concentrated in Helsinki, Turku and Tampere, it is fully integrated into Finnish society and is considered the very first Muslim community in all of Scandinavia. This, by the way, is actively used by the Finnish authorities. So, for example, Finnish Tatars even at one time wanted to be involved in the promotion of Nokia products in the countries of the Muslim East. A recent example is the Prime Minister of Turkey Tayyip Erdogan during his October visit to Finland, as part of his visit, he met with the activists of the “Islamic Turkic community of Tatars”.

“The meeting was held in the building of the Tatar Islamic Society in Helsinki. Erdogan spent an hour talking with members of the community. At the end of the meeting, the prime minister kissed the hand of Naila Asis, who turned 85, and presented her with a silver suitcase,” Vatan Turkish edition reports.

NOT ONLY THE NORTHWEST

According to BaltInfo, Finnish businessmen headed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nokia and Shell were expected to visit Kazan as part of an official delegation Yorma Ollila.

True, there were no other reports about the arrival of businessmen in Kazan. In the message of the press service of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan, it is indicated that the meeting with Minnikhanov from Finland was attended by Paavo Väyrynen - Minister for Foreign Trade and Development of Finland, Matti Antonen - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Finland to Russian Federation, Head of the Office of the President of Finland Piavi Kairamo-Hella, Permanent Undersecretary for Affairs environment Finland Hannele Bye, Director of the Department for Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland Nina Vaskunlahti.

It should be noted that today in Tatarstan one of the largest representatives of Finnish business is the YIT construction concern, which, despite the crisis, built the Sovremennik residential complex in Kazan. Also, Finland is one of the countries where employees of a number of Tatarstan enterprises undergo training. In 2008, the trade turnover with Tatarstan reached $500 million.

According to Minnikhanov, Finnish business is underrepresented in the Republic of Tatarstan, which he stated at a meeting with Halonen. “Business from Finland should come to the republic. We have created all the conditions for business, and you should not be limited only to the north-west of Russia, ”Tatar-inform quotes the Tatarstan president, but the head of the Republic of Tatarstan promised to tell the Finnish business delegation about all the benefits tomorrow during a business breakfast. Minnikhanov sees prospects for development with Finland in the export of products from the oil and petrochemical industries.

During the conversation, Halonen recalled that Finnish hockey players play in Ak Bars and expressed her hope that the representatives of Finland will also perform at the 2013 Universiade. At the end of the meeting, the President of Finland invited the head of Tatarstan to visit Finland, and, in her opinion, it would be best to do this next year during a meeting of the working group on economic cooperation between Russia and Finland.

Vladimir Kazantsev
Arslan Minvaleev
Photo and video from prav.tatar.ru

Not all Tatars are civilized, in Ukraine they are savages.

Why do I like Finns so much?

Russian scientists for the first time in history conducted an unprecedented study of the Russian gene pool - and were shocked by its results. In particular, this study fully confirmed the idea expressed in our articles “Country Moksel” (No. 14) and “Non-Russian Russian Language” (No. 12) that Russians are not Slavs, but only Russian-speaking Finns.

“Russian scientists have completed and are preparing for publication the first large-scale study of the gene pool of the Russian people. The publication of the results may have unpredictable consequences for Russia and the world order,” this is how the publication on this topic begins sensationally in the Russian edition of Vlast. And the sensation really turned out to be incredible - many myths about Russian nationality turned out to be false. Among other things, it turned out that genetically Russians are not “Eastern Slavs” at all, but Finns.

RUSSIANS TURNED OUT TO BE FINNS

Anthropologists have been able, over several decades of intense research, to reveal the appearance of a typical Russian person. These are of medium build and medium height, light brown-haired with light eyes - gray or blue. By the way, in the course of the research, a verbal portrait of a typical Ukrainian was also obtained. The reference Ukrainian differs from the Russian in the color of his skin, hair and eyes - he is a swarthy brunette with regular features and brown eyes. However, anthropological measurements of proportions human body- not even the last, but the century before last, of science, which has long received at its disposal the most accurate methods of molecular biology, which allow you to read all human genes. And the most advanced methods of DNA analysis today are sequencing (reading by letter of the genetic code) of mitochondrial DNA and DNA of the human Y-chromosome. Mitochondrial DNA has been passed down the female line from generation to generation, virtually unchanged since Eve, the progenitor of mankind, climbed down from a tree in East Africa. And the Y-chromosome is present only in men and, therefore, is also transmitted almost unchanged to male offspring, while all other chromosomes, when transmitted from father and mother to their children, are shuffled by nature, like a deck of cards before distribution. Thus, in contrast to indirect signs ( appearance, proportions of the body), sequencing of mitochondrial DNA and DNA of the Y-chromosome undeniably and directly indicate the degree of kinship of people, writes the magazine "Power".

In the West, human population geneticists have been successfully using these methods for two decades. In Russia, they were used only once, in the mid-1990s, when identifying the royal remains. The turning point in the situation with the use of the most modern methods for studying the titular nation of Russia occurred only in 2000. The Russian Foundation for Basic Research allocated a grant to scientists from the Laboratory of Human Population Genetics of the Medical Genetic Center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. For the first time in the history of Russia, scientists were able to fully concentrate on studying the gene pool of the Russian people for several years. They supplemented their molecular genetic studies with an analysis of the frequency distribution of Russian surnames in the country. This method was very cheap, but its information content exceeded all expectations: a comparison of the geography of surnames with the geography of genetic DNA markers showed their almost complete coincidence.

The molecular genetic results of the first Russian study of the gene pool of the titular nationality are now being prepared for publication in the form of the monograph "Russian Gene Pool", which will be published at the end of the year by the Luch publishing house. The journal "Vlast" cites some research data. So, it turned out that Russians are not “Eastern Slavs” at all, but Finns. By the way, these studies completely destroyed the notorious myth about the "Eastern Slavs" - that supposedly Belarusians, Ukrainians and Russians "make up a group of Eastern Slavs." The only Slavs of these three peoples were only Belarusians, but it turned out that Belarusians are not “Eastern Slavs” at all, but Western ones - because they practically do not differ genetically from the Poles. So the myth about “kindred blood of Belarusians and Russians” was completely destroyed: Belarusians turned out to be virtually identical to Poles, Belarusians are genetically very far from Russians, but very close to Czechs and Slovaks. But the Finns of Finland turned out to be genetically closer to the Russians than the Belarusians. So, according to the Y-chromosome, the genetic distance between the Russians and the Finns of Finland is only 30 conventional units (close relationship). And the genetic distance between a Russian person and the so-called Finno-Ugric peoples (Mari, Veps, Mordovians, etc.) living on the territory of the Russian Federation is 2-3 units. Simply put, they are genetically IDENTICAL. In this regard, the Vlast magazine notes: “And the harsh statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia on September 1 at the EU Council in Brussels (after the Russian party denounced the state border agreement with Estonia) about discrimination against Finno-Ugric peoples allegedly related to Finns in the Russian Federation loses its meaningful meaning. . But due to the moratorium of Western scientists, the Russian Foreign Ministry could not reasonably accuse Estonia of interfering in our internal, one might even say closely related, affairs.” This philippic is only one facet of the mass of contradictions that have arisen. Since the closest relatives for Russians are Finno-Ugric peoples and Estonians (in fact, these are the same people, because the difference of 2-3 units is inherent in only one people), then Russian jokes about “inhibited Estonians” are strange, when Russians themselves are these Estonians. A huge problem arises for Russia in self-identification as supposedly “Slavs”, because genetically the Russian people have nothing to do with the Slavs. In the myth about the “Slavic roots of Russians”, Russian scientists put a bold point: there is nothing from the Slavs in Russians. There is only a near-Slavic Russian language, but it also contains 60-70% of non-Slavic vocabulary, so a Russian person is not able to understand the languages ​​\u200b\u200bof the Slavs, although a real Slav understands Slavic languages ​​\u200b\u200bbecause of the similarity - any (except Russian). The results of the analysis of mitochondrial DNA showed that another closest relative of Russians, except for the Finns of Finland, is the Tatars: Russians from the Tatars are at the same genetic distance of 30 conventional units that separate them from the Finns. No less sensational were the data on Ukraine. It turned out that genetically the population of Eastern Ukraine is Finno-Ugric: Eastern Ukrainians are practically no different from Russians, Komi, Mordovians, Mari. This is one Finnish people, who once had their own common Finnish language. But with the Ukrainians of Western Ukraine, everything turned out to be even more unexpected. These are not Slavs at all, just as they are not “Russo-Finns” of Russia and Eastern Ukraine, but a completely different ethnic group: the genetic distance between Ukrainians from Lvov and Tatars is only 10 units.

Such a close relationship of Western Ukrainians with the Tatars may be explained by the Sarmatian roots of the ancient inhabitants of Kievan Rus. Of course, there is a certain Slavic component in the blood of Western Ukrainians (they are more genetically close to Slavs than Russians), but they are still not Slavs, but Sarmatians. Anthropologically, they are characterized by wide cheekbones, dark hair and Brown eyes, dark (and not pink, like Caucasians) nipples. The magazine writes: “You can react in any way you like to these strictly scientific facts that show the natural essence of the reference electorates of Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych. But it will not be possible to accuse Russian scientists of falsifying these data: then the accusation will automatically extend to their Western colleagues, who have been delaying the publication of these results for more than a year, each time extending the moratorium.” The journal is right: these data clearly explain the deep and permanent split in Ukrainian society, where two completely different ethnic groups live under the name "Ukrainians". Moreover, Russian imperialism will take these scientific data into service - as another (already weighty and scientific) argument to "grow" the territory of Russia with Eastern Ukraine. But what about the myth about the "Slavs-Russians"?

Recognizing this data and trying to use it, Russian strategists here are faced with what the people call a “double-edged sword”: in this case, they will have to reconsider the entire national self-identification of the Russian people as “Slavic” and abandon the concept of “kinship” with Belarusians and the entire Slavic World - no longer at the level of scientific research, but at the political level. The magazine also publishes a map indicating the area where "true Russian genes" (that is, Finnish) are still preserved. Geographically, this territory “coincides with Russia during the time of Ivan the Terrible” and “clearly shows the conditionality of some state borders,” writes the magazine. Namely: the population of Bryansk, Kursk and Smolensk is not at all a Russian population (that is, Finnish), but a Belarusian-Polish one - identical to the genes of Belarusians and Poles. The fact that in the Middle Ages the border between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Muscovy was precisely the ethnic border between the Slavs and Finns is interesting (by the way, the eastern border of Europe then passed along it). The further imperialism of Muscovy-Russia, which annexed neighboring territories, went beyond the ethnic Muscovites and captured already foreign ethnic groups.

WHAT IS Rus'?

These new discoveries of Russian scientists allow us to take a fresh look at the entire policy of medieval Muscovy, including its concept of "Rus". It turns out that “pulling the Russian blanket over itself” by Moscow is explained purely ethnically, genetically. The so-called "Holy Rus'" in the concept of the Russian Orthodox Church of Moscow and Russian historians was formed on the fact of the rise of Moscow in the Horde, and, as Lev Gumilyov wrote, for example, in the book "From Rus' to Russia", according to the same fact, Ukrainians and Belarusians ceased to be Rusyns, ceased to be Russia. It is clear that there were two completely different Russias. One, Western, lived its own life of the Slavs, united into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Russia. Another Rus' - Eastern Rus' (more precisely Muscovy - because it was not considered Russia at that time) - entered the Horde ethnically close to it for 300 years, in which it then seized power and made it "Russia" even before the conquest of Novgorod and Pskov into the Horde-Russia. This second Rus' - Rus' of the Finnish ethnos - is called the Russian Orthodox Church of Moscow and Russian historians "Holy Russia", while depriving Western Rus' of the right to something "Russian" (forcing even the entire people of Kievan Rus to call themselves not Rusyns, but "okraintsy" ). The meaning is clear: this Finnish Russian had little in common with the original Slavic Russian. (ON - Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Russian Orthodox Church - ? Yu. S.)

The very centuries-old confrontation between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Muscovy (which seemed to have something in common in Russia between the Rurikoviches and the Kievan faith, and the princes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Vitovt-Yuri and Jagiello-Yakov were Orthodox from birth, were Rurikovich and the Grand Dukes of Russia, there was no other language except Russian, knew) - this is a confrontation between countries of different ethnic groups: ON brought together the Slavs, and Muscovy - the Finns. As a result, for many centuries two Russias opposed each other - the Slavic Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Finnish Muscovy. This explains the glaring fact that Muscovy NEVER during her stay in the Horde expressed a desire to return to Rus', gain freedom from the Tatars, join the ON. And its capture of Novgorod was caused precisely by the negotiations of Novgorod on joining the GDL. This Russophobia of Moscow and its “masochism” (“the Horde yoke is better than the GDL”) can only be explained by ethnic differences with original Russia and ethnic closeness to the peoples of the Horde. It is this genetic difference with the Slavs that explains Muscovy's rejection of the European way of life, hatred of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Poles (that is, the Slavs in general), great love for the East and Asian traditions. These studies of Russian scientists must also be reflected in the revision of their concepts by historians. Among other things, it is long necessary to introduce into historical science the fact that there was not one Rus, but two completely different ones: Slavic Rus and Finnish Rus. This clarification allows us to understand and explain many processes of our medieval history, which in the current interpretation seem to be devoid of any meaning.

RUSSIAN SURNAME

Attempts by Russian scientists to investigate the statistics of Russian surnames at first encountered a lot of difficulties. The Central Election Commission and local election commissions flatly refused to cooperate with scientists, arguing that only if the voter lists are secret can they guarantee the objectivity and honesty of elections to federal and local authorities. The criterion for inclusion in the list of a surname was very lenient: it was included if at least five carriers of this surname lived in the region for three generations. First, lists were compiled for five conditional regions - Northern, Central, Central-Western, Central-Eastern and Southern. In total, about 15 thousand Russian surnames were accumulated in all regions of Russia, most of which were found only in one of the regions and were absent in others.

When regional lists were superimposed on each other, scientists identified a total of 257 so-called “all-Russian surnames”. The journal writes: “Interestingly, at the final stage of the study, they decided to add the names of residents of the Krasnodar Territory to the list of the Southern Region, expecting that the predominance of Ukrainian surnames of the descendants of the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks evicted here by Catherine II would significantly reduce the all-Russian list. But this additional restriction reduced the list of all-Russian surnames by only 7 units - to 250. From which the obvious and not pleasant conclusion followed that the Kuban was inhabited mainly by Russian people. And where did the Ukrainians go and were there at all Ukrainians here is a big question.” And further: “An analysis of Russian surnames in general provides food for thought. Even the simplest action - searching it for the names of all the leaders of the country - gave an unexpected result. Only one of them was included in the list of top 250 all-Russian surnames - Mikhail Gorbachev (158th place). The surname Brezhnev takes 3767th place in the general list (found only in the Belgorod region of the Southern region). The surname Khrushchev is in 4248th place (found only in the Northern region, Arkhangelsk region). Chernenko took 4749th place (only the Southern region). Andropov - 8939th place (only the Southern region). Putin took 14,250th place (only the Southern region). But Yeltsin was not included in the general list at all. Stalin's surname - Dzhugashvili - for obvious reasons was not considered. But on the other hand, the pseudonym Lenin got into the regional lists under the number 1421, second only to the first president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev. The magazine writes that the result amazed even the scientists themselves, who believed that the main difference between the bearers of South Russian surnames was not in the ability to lead a huge power, but in the increased sensitivity of the skin of their fingers and palms. A scientific analysis of dermatoglyphics (papillary patterns on the skin of the palms and fingers) of Russian people has shown that the complexity of the pattern (from simple arcs to loops) and the accompanying skin sensitivity increase from north to south. “A person with simple patterns on the skin of his hands can hold a glass of hot tea in his hands without pain,” Dr. Balanovskaya clearly explained the essence of the differences. “And if there are a lot of loops, then unsurpassed pickpockets came out of such people.” Scientists publish a list of the 250 most popular Russian surnames. Unexpected was the fact that the most massive Russian surname is not Ivanov, but Smirnov. This whole list is probably not worth citing, here are just the 20 most massive Russian surnames: 1. Smirnov; 2. Ivanov; 3. Kuznetsov; 4. Popov; 5. Sokolov; 6. Lebedev; 7. Kozlov; 8. Novikov; 9. Morozov; 10. Petrov; 11. Volkov; 12. Solovyov; 13. Vasiliev; 14. Zaitsev; 15. Pavlov; 16. Semenov; 17. Golubev; 18. Vinogradov; 19. Bogdanov; 20. Sparrows. All top all-Russian surnames have Bulgarian endings in -ov (-ev), plus a few surnames in -in (Ilyin, Kuzmin, etc.). And among the top 250 there is not a single surname of “Eastern Slavs” (Belarusians and Ukrainians) in -iy, -ich, -ko. Although in Belarus the most common surnames are -iy and -ich, and in Ukraine - on -ko. This also shows the deep differences between the "Eastern Slavs", because Belarusian surnames with -y and -ich are equally the most common in Poland - and not at all in Russia. The Bulgarian endings of the 250 most massive Russian surnames indicate that the surnames were given by the priests of Kievan Rus, who spread Orthodoxy among its Finns in Muscovy, because these surnames are Bulgarian, from holy books, and not from the living Slavic language, which the Finns of Muscovy just don’t have was. Otherwise, it is impossible to understand why the Russians do not have the surnames of the Belarusians living nearby (in -i and -ich), but the Bulgarian surnames - although the Bulgarians are not at all bordering Moscow, but live thousands of kilometers away from it. The mass nature of surnames with animal names is explained by Lev Uspensky in the book “Mysteries of Toponymy” (M., 1973) by the fact that in the Middle Ages people had two names - from parents, and from baptism, and “from parents” then it was “fashionable” to give names animals. As he writes, then in the family the children had the names Hare, Wolf, Bear, etc. This pagan tradition was embodied in the mass character of "animal" surnames.

ABOUT BELARUSIANS

A special topic in this study is the genetic identity of Belarusians and Poles. This did not become the subject of attention of Russian scientists, because it is outside of Russia. But it is very interesting for us. The very fact of the genetic identity of Poles and Belarusians is not unexpected. The very history of our countries confirms it - the main part of the ethnic group of Belarusians and Poles are not Slavs, but Slavicized Western Balts, but their genetic “passport” is so close to Slavic that it would be almost difficult to find differences in genes between Slavs and Prussians, Mazurs, Dainova , Yotvingians, etc. This is what unites the Poles and Belarusians, the descendants of the Slavicized Western Balts. This ethnic community also explains the creation of the Union State of the Commonwealth. The famous Belarusian historian V.U. Lastovsky in his “Brief History of Belarus” (Vilna, 1910) writes that negotiations on the creation of the Union State of Belarusians and Poles began ten times: in 1401, 1413, 1438, 1451, 1499, 1501, 1563, 1564, 1566, 1567. - and ended for the eleventh time with the creation of the Union in 1569. Where does such persistence come from? Obviously - only from the awareness of the ethnic community, because the ethnic group of Poles and Belarusians was created on the dissolution of the Western Balts. But the Czechs and Slovaks, who were also part of the first in the history of the Slavic Union of the peoples of the Commonwealth, no longer felt this degree of closeness, because they did not have a “Baltic component” in themselves. And even more alienation was among the Ukrainians, who saw this as little ethnic kinship and eventually entered into a complete confrontation with the Poles. The studies of Russian geneticists allow us to take a completely different look at our entire history, because many political events and political preferences of the peoples of Europe are largely explained precisely by the genetics of their ethnic group - which has so far remained hidden from historians. It was the genetics and genetic relationship of ethnic groups that were the most important forces in the political processes of medieval Europe. The genetic map of peoples, created by Russian scientists, allows you to look at the wars and alliances of the Middle Ages from a completely different angle.

CONCLUSIONS

The results of research by Russian scientists on the gene pool of the Russian people will be assimilated in society for a long time, because they completely refute all our ideas, reducing them to the level of unscientific myths. This new knowledge is not so much to be understood as it is necessary to get used to it. Now the concept of “Eastern Slavs” has become absolutely unscientific, the congresses of Slavs in Minsk are unscientific, where not Slavs from Russia gather at all, but Russian-speaking Finns from Russia, who are not genetically Slavs and have nothing to do with the Slavs. The very status of these "congresses of the Slavs" is completely discredited by Russian scientists. The Russian people are named according to the results of these studies by Russian scientists not Slavs, but Finns. The population of Eastern Ukraine is also named Finns, while the population of Western Ukraine is genetically Sarmatians. That is, the Ukrainian people are not Slavs either. Belarusians are genetically named the only Slavs from the "Eastern Slavs", but they are genetically identical to the Poles - which means they are not "Eastern Slavs" at all, but genetically Western Slavs. In fact, this means the geopolitical collapse of the Slavic Triangle of the "Eastern Slavs", because Belarusians turned out to be genetically Poles, Russians - Finns, and Ukrainians - Finns and Sarmatians. Of course, propaganda will continue to try to hide this fact from the population, but you can't hide an awl in a sack. As well as not to close the mouth of scientists, not to hide their latest genetic research. Scientific progress cannot be stopped. Therefore, the discoveries of Russian scientists are not just a scientific sensation, but a BOMB capable of undermining all the current foundations in the ideas of peoples. That is why the Russian magazine Vlast gave this fact an extremely worried assessment: “Russian scientists have completed and are preparing for publication the first large-scale study of the gene pool of the Russian people. The publication of the results could have unpredictable consequences for Russia and the world order.” The magazine did not exaggerate.

Now I have returned from a trip to Mari El, having received a dictionary and a Bible in the Mari language as a gift, so I would like to turn to the consideration of the Mari language. To begin with, a working hypothesis about who the Mari are and for whom they are revered. All reference books unanimously call them the Finno-Ugric people, but they live on the middle Volga north of Tatarstan, and at the first impression, the Mari language has a rather strong Tatar vocabulary. Also, among native speakers, the accent very much resembles the dialect of the Tatars.

I will give a number of catchy analogies in the Tatar and Mari languages ​​(I will indicate the Russian translation in brackets):

Il (country) - el; kala (city) - ola; adem (person) - aideme; salam (hello) - salam.
Halyk (people) - kalyk; bazaar (market) - pazar; beyrem (holiday) - payrem; matur (beautiful) - motor.
Doshman (enemy) - tushman; snowstorms (blizzard) - puran; alma (apple) - olma; bure (wolf) - pire.
Saryk (sheep) - shoryk, syerchyk (starling) - shyrchyk, torna (crane) - turn.

As you can see, although these words are not the core of the language, they belong to the deep layers of vocabulary and reflect the centuries-old Tatar-Mari interaction, the beginning of which dates back to the Bulgar era (late Middle Ages)

Well, now let's compare the Tatar and Mari words to see how close these languages ​​are. So, let's compare 40 words from the core of the Tatar and Mari language, and for convenience, we indicate the Russian translation in brackets.

Yakty (light) - volgydo (-), koyash (sun) - keche (+), ut (fire) - tul (-), karangylyk (darkness) - pychkemysh (-).
Tash (stone) - ku (-), agach (tree) - pushenge (-), su (water) - wood (-), kul (lake) - er (-).
Dingez (sea) - tenez (+), fat (earth) - mlande (-), kuk (sky) - kava (-), yoldyz (star) - shudyr (-).
Balyk (fish) - stake (-), kosh (bird) - kayik (-), bash (head) - vui (-), chech (hair) - upsho (-).
Ayak (leg) - yol (-), kuz (eye) - shincha (-), kolak (ear) - puff (-), tesh (tooth) - pui (-).
Avyz (mouth) - umsha (-), soyak (bone) - lu (-), kan (blood) - vurzho (-), kul (hand) - kid (-).
Aby (brother) - iza (-), balalar (children) - yocha (-), kyz (daughter) - udyrzhylan (-), st (son) - erge (-).
Ana (mother) - ava (-), ata (father) - acha (+), sot (milk) - shor (-), ulem (death) - kolymash (-).
Ike (two) - cook (-), och (third) - kum (-), durtle (four) - whined (-), bish (five) - vich (+).
Alty (six) - kud (-), jideu (seven) - shem (-), ak (white) - osh (+), kara (black) - shem (-).

We get 4 matches on the roots of words. We multiply 4 by 100 and divide by 40. We get 10% of matches, which is more likely due to close proximity than the collapse of a single proto-language.

Now let's compare the cores of the Finnish and Mari languages:

Valo (light) - volgydo (+), aurinko (sun) - keche (-), tuli (fire) - tul (+), pimeys (darkness) - pychkemysh (-).
kivi (stone) - ku (+), puu (tree) - pushenge (+), vesi (water) - wood (+), jarvi (lake) - er (+).
Meri (sea) - tenez (-), maa (earth) - mlande (+), taivas (sky) - kava (+), tahti (star) - shudyr (-).
kala (fish) - count (+), lintu (bird) - kayik (-), paa (head) - vui (-), karva (hair) - upsho (-).
Jalka (leg) - yol (+), silma (eye) - shincha (-), korva (ear) - puff (-), hammas (tooth) - pui (-).
suu (mouth) - umsha (-), luu (bone) - lu (+), veri (blood) - vurjo (+), ylaraaja (hand) - kid (-).
Veli (brother) - iza (-), lapsi (children) - yocha (-), tytto (daughter) - uglylan (-), poiko (son) - erge (-).
aiti (mother) - ava (-), isa (father) - acha (-), maito (milk) - shor (-), koulema (death) - kolymash (+).
kaksi (two) - cook (+), kolme (third) - kum (+), nelja (four) - whined (+), viisi (five) - vich (+).
Kuusi (six) - kud (+), seitseman (seven) - shem (-), valka (white) - osh (-), musta (black) - shem (-).

We get 17 matches for the roots of words. We multiply 17 by 100 and divide by 40. We get 42% of matches. That is, according to our hypothesis, the Mari and Finnish languages ​​\u200b\u200bdispersed approximately in the Iron Age (1 thousand BC). It's like Russian and Lithuanian, where there are even more lexical matches. Cm.

What united the Mari and Finns in the Iron Age? Fishing Culture of reticulated ceramics, which spread from the Volga region to Karelia.

Thus, the Mari are still closer to the Finns than to the Tatars. Although 1000 km separates them from the first, and 10 times less from the others. It is curious that the terms of kinship do not unite the Finnish and Mari languages, although the basic vocabulary on the topic of light, death, parts of the body and numerals still coincide.

Why is the Tatar diaspora decreasing in Finland? Where is "Finnish" halal food made? How active is a radical cell in this country? Imam-khatib of the Muslim community of Finland Ramil Belyaev tried to answer these and many other questions especially for the readers of Realnoe Vremya.

How did the Finnish Tatars appear?

- Ramil hazrat, tell me, how big is the Tatar community in Finland?

- It is small: the number of people is only about 600 people. When the Tatars moved to Finland (it was at the beginning of the last century), the maximum size of the community was about a thousand people.

- What caused such a reduction in numbers?

The point is that the birth rate recent years 10-20 or even 30 was not as active as it used to be. The situation in the last 10 years has been developing in such a way that when about 10-15 people die, about two or three children are born. T what is the actual problem. The leadership of the community pays great attention to solving this issue.

- How close are the ties between Finnish Tatars and Tatarstan?

- Relations between the Tatars of Finland and Tatarstan began to take shape in the late 60s of the last century. Then Tatar artists came to Helsinki for the first time. From that time until today, a close relationship has been maintained. In general, contact has been established at the highest level: the leaders of the republic have visited the Tatar community in Finland three times. The first visit took place in 1999, when Mintimer Shaimiev visited the community. Rustam Minnikhanov visited the community twice.

“Contact has been established at the highest level: the leaders of the republic visited the Tatar community in Finland three times. The first visit took place in 1999, when Mintimer Shaimiev visited the community. Rustam Minnikhanov visited the community twice.” Photo prav.tatarstan.ru

- And, in fact, how did the Tatars end up in Finland?

- In short, we can start with the fact that the Tatars of the Nizhny Novgorod province, who did business in St. Petersburg at the beginning of the XlX century, like many representatives of this class, were looking for new opportunities. When Finland became part of the Russian Empire, the Tatars became very interested in this region, especially since the principality was given broad powers. For the first time, Tatars went to Finland in the 1860s. In 1870, work was finally completed on the construction of the railway between Helsinki and St. Petersburg, and this made it possible to travel freely.

By the beginning of the 20th century, a small community had formed in Finland. It should be noted that by this time the military Tatars had already created a base for conducting religious and cultural activities there. By the beginning of the revolutionary changes in Russia, several families already lived in Finland, which had their own shops. In this way they were able to develop their business. When global changes began associated with the 1917 revolution and the secession of Finland, the Tatars decided to stay in this new country. They called on their relatives, acquaintances and friends to follow their example. The resettlement process was completed around the beginning of the Soviet-Finnish war.

- Did the number of Tatars increase after the collapse of the Soviet Union?

- The community has grown with brides from Russia, mainly from Tatarstan. Today, the community does not know exactly how many newly arrived Tatars live in Finland, since these Tatars often do not speak their native language well.

“There are two Tatar parishes, and if we take completely Muslim parishes, then there are a lot of them. Now there are about 80 thousand Muslims living in Finland, and their number continues to grow due to the influx of refugees.” In the photo dumrf.ru is a mosque in the Finnish city of Järvenpää

Radical currents in Finland and the largest diasporas

- Are there many Muslim parishes in Finland?

There are two Tatar parishes, and if we take completely Muslim parishes, then there are a lot of them. Now about 80 thousand Muslims live in Finland, and their number continues to grow due to the influx of refugees who, by the way, apply for family reunification - they invite their wives and children. In 10-15 years, the number of Muslims in Finland may increase to 100-120 thousand people. If we talk about the number of Muslim organizations that exist in Finland, then they number several dozen.

The largest diaspora is Somalis, then there are Turks, Arabs, Bosnians, Muslims from Kosovo, there is also a large diaspora of Kurds, a diaspora of Uighurs from China appeared ...

- Are there any radical movements in your country? How many have joined ISIS (an organization banned in Russia. - approx. ed.)?

- Personally, I have not encountered any manifestations of extremism or radicalism. I can note that the majority of Muslims are still refugees, and they are concerned about completely different issues - this is integration, learning the language, finding their place in a new country. Still, a new country is a foreign language, a foreign culture, a foreign religion. This is a very large process that takes a huge amount of time. Some time ago, the Finnish press wrote about several citizens who left for the territories controlled by ISIS.

- Not so long ago, an extremely unpleasant incident happened: the Finnish authorities took away three children from a Russian woman, justifying this by the fact that a woman spanked her child for educational purposes ...

- You know, I am well acquainted with the Finnish system and I can say for sure that children are not taken away from families without good reasons. First, a signal is given that there is some kind of problem family in which something is happening. She is taken under control - they meet, they talk. If the problem is not solved at this stage, then more stringent control is introduced, in particular, psychologists are involved. When a child is taken away, this is the most extreme measure that is resorted to if there is a real threat to his health: both physical and mental. Moreover, there is no difference what national composition this family has, and what religion it professes - absolutely the same attitude towards everyone.

Most likely, the problem here was not resolved in the first two stages, and in the end the authorities came to such a solution. In general, in my opinion, this question was deliberately inflated in the Russian media.

“On the territory of the capital region of Finland, about 20 stores offer halal meat products - some animals are slaughtered in Finland, some of the meat is imported - Latvia is very active, New Zealand. Also, a lot of sausage products are brought from Sweden.” Photo ufavesti.ru

"Halal eggs and halal Coca-Cola" This is pure speculation."

- How is the issue of halal products solved in Finland?

- This issue in Finland was resolved in a private way, that is, the Tatars themselves went to the slaughterhouses and slaughtered animals with the mention of the appropriate wording. But the issue of mass halal products has become more relevant since the early 2000s due to the increase in the number of Muslims. Dedicated stores needed. One of the first fresh meat stores opened in Helsinki in the early 2000s, in the Sernainen area.

And the current state of the halal business is very positive. There is already a lot of competition there - the niche is filled and even oversaturated. On the territory of the capital region of Finland, about 20 stores offer halal meat products - some animals are slaughtered in Finland, some of the meat is imported - Latvia is very active, New Zealand. Also a lot of sausage products are brought from Sweden. There were even attempts to make halal products of this kind on our own, but they did not find a response. At a high level, they thought about it, but abandoned this idea, because it is faster and cheaper to buy.

The assortment is really wide: from halal sausages to some frozen products.

- Are halal Coca-Cola products common?

This is pure speculation and a marketing ploy. I saw halal eggs in St. Petersburg ... I am very skeptical about this, you can’t go too far.

Lina Sarimova

Do you know that the Tatars ended up in Finland at the end of the 19th century? Do you know that they came there from the Nizhny Novgorod province? What social stratum do you think these Tatars belonged to? We will tell you about this in another article dedicated to the Tatars living outside the Republic of Tatarstan.

In 1809, as a result of the Russo-Swedish War (1808-1809), Finland was annexed to Russian Empire. Then, in his manifesto, Emperor Alexander I announced the eternal and irrevocable annexation of Finland: "In a series of peoples, subject to the Russian Scepter and a single Empire, the inhabitants of the newly annexed Finland from now on have taken their place forever."

Tatars were sent to the garrisons of the Russian army to build military fortresses on the Aland Islands and islands near Helsinki. Almost all of them returned to Russia upon completion of construction. Now only evidence of their presence is Islamic cemetery in Bumarsund.

The ancestors of today's Tatars came to Finland from two dozen villages in the Sergach district of the Nizhny Novgorod province in the period from the 1870s to the mid-1920s. They were mainly merchants who traded in furs, leather, fabrics and clothing, who traveled to sell goods first to St. Petersburg, and then to Vyborg, gradually mastering other regions of Finland.

Good conditions for trade could not but attract a large number of Tatar merchants. At the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, a small Tatar community began to form here.

Foundation of the first Islamic community and Tatar cultural society

In 1925, the first Islamic community was founded in Helsinki, and ten years later, Tatar Cultural Society, which, in addition to religious holidays and ceremonies, began to arrange cultural events with performances, folk music and dances, recitation of poems.

After the end of World War II, the Vyborg Tatars moved to Tampere and Helsinki. It was in Tampere that the second community of Tatars was founded in the 40s. Smaller community groups soon appeared in Kotka, Turku, Rauma, Pori and other cities.

In 1948, a Tatar primary school began operating in Helsinki, which was financed on a shared basis by the Islamic community and the city municipality. With the general education reform that came in 1969, the work of the Tatar school, unfortunately, turned out to be impossible, since there were too few students to receive state subsidies.

Today, in all cities of Finland where Tatars live, there are Tatar Sunday schools. In them, children of community members learn their native language, learn the culture and history of the Tatar people. In addition, since the 50s, a Tatar kindergarten.

In the 70s of the last century, the Finnish Tatars were united in two organizations - "Society named after G. Tukay" , created by a professor at the University of Helsinki Gumar Daher, and the National Religious Society of Finnish Tatars "Islamia", which was headed by a large trader in furs and furs Osman Ali. Currently, these organizations have practically merged into one.

After the death of Gumar Daher, his son remained the leader of the Tatar diaspora in Finland Okan Daher. In turn, the Tatar youth created their own organization - FTB (Fintatar birligi) whose main task is to solve cultural problems.

The careful attitude to everything related to national history, culture, language and customs, which is characteristic of the Tatar diaspora in Finland, is also manifested in active scientific and cultural ties with Tatarstan. So, for example, at one time on the stage of the Tatar State Academic Theater. G. Kamala successfully passed the performance "Galiabanu" staged by an actor of the youth amateur theater from Helsinki.

Joint creative works of Finnish Tatars and our compatriots were shown in New York and San Francisco. Society "Islamiya" often invites Tatarstan workers of science, culture and art. Renowned architect-designer from Helsinki Pervin Imaditdin was invited to participate in the restoration work of the historical center of Kazan for the 1000th anniversary of the capital.

How do Finnish Tatars live? Is their lifestyle different?

The Tatars of Finland have always paid great attention to the family. In the preservation of the native language, the main role historically belongs to parents. Together with them, the responsibility for raising a child is shared by grandparents and other relatives.

Despite the fact that in everyday life the Tatars of Finland speak, as a rule, Finnish, in the family communication takes place only in Tatar. The mahalla has its own teachers' organization. Once a week, parents bring young children to a kindergarten where they are taught fairy tales, poems and songs in the Tatar language.

School-age children regularly attend Sunday schools where they are taught their native language and the basics of Islam. After finishing school, children go to a summer camp for 2-3 weeks. Here, schoolchildren from Sweden, Germany, Turkey, the USA, Canada, and recently from Tatarstan, study the language, culture and history of the Tatars. At the end of the course, a big Sabantuy is held, to which parents and friends, grandparents are invited.

At its own expense, the mahalla publishes books, including fairy tales, poems, textbooks for children, collections of songs for the older generation and many other literature that allows you to get acquainted with the culture of the Tatar people. Of course, all texts are printed on the basis of Latin graphics.

Tutorials for Tatar language are represented mainly by Tatarstan publications issued in the Soviet and post-Soviet times. In addition to translating educational material from Cyrillic to Latin, there is another difficult problem - its adaptation to the peculiarities of the speech of the Finnish Tatars.

In general, it is worth noting a high degree the level of education of the members of the Tatar community is approximately twice as high as that of the average resident of Finland. In addition to native Tatar, knowledge of such languages ​​as Finnish, Swedish, Tatar, Turkish, and English is noted.

Today, the Finnish diaspora of Tatars has about 900 members, among whom there are representatives of big business and government officials. The average mahalla representative comes to community meetings twice a month.

The main goal of the so-called "Kichine tea", that is, tea parties, - sincere communication and exchange of opinions. Amateur song and dance ensembles, a small theater troupe are preparing cultural programs with poetry readings, comic skits, performances by professional and non-professional performers.

To be continued...

Ilmira Gafiyatullina