Что же касается Путина, то у него, по-видимому, действительно имеются финно-угорские корни — очевидно, он происходит из народности вепсов. Из этого нельзя делать Бог весть какие выводы, вот и у Ленина и Молотова тоже были мордовские корни. Финно-угорское происхождение отнюдь не означает большой любви к своим соплеменникам. Тут можно привести замечательный пример: мордовцы (эрзя и мокша) в парламенте Мордовской Республики не пожелали, чтобы их языки стали государственными. Такой законопроект защищали как раз русские.

И все же государственная власть России во время правления Путина стала лучше относиться к финно-угорским народам. Отнести ли это на счет происхождения Путина, изменения национальных представлений или международного давления — не знаю.

President Vladimir Putin's sensational allegations of the Finno-Ugric family roots have erupted once again in Russia. This time it all got started in Estonia Jaak Prozes writing Delfi news site. Prozes is the Chairman of the Fenno-Ugrian tribal organization.

- Putin seems to really be the Finno-Ugric roots. It is apparently so that he is descended from Vepsians, Prozes wrote.

Prozes has no further evidence to substantiate this claim, but the same thing has been discussed in Russian and Estonian newspapers and Internet forums repeatedly during Putin's reign.

Poet Mikul Abramov told to have reached up to Putin, a direct question as to whether or not this Vepsäläinen. Kominarod.ru, according to the newspaper, "Putin did not answer the question yes or no."

Vepsians are small Finno-Ugric tribes, whose representatives are thought to live in Russia at the moment only about 8200.

Russkij reporter Russian magazine cites a recent issue of the Prozes writing and to point out that the presidential administration has not responded to allegations in any way.

The magazine article is illustrated by drawing a picture, where Putin is holding a helmet and a bow, and standing next to him national costume dressed elderly woman.

"The roots of Finnish

are offensive "

Putin's parents were originally from Tver, near the village of Pominovon. Region is also known as the Tver Karelians residence.

Official presidential biography is not in any way support these guesse of Finno-Ugric roots.

Prozes states that finding the Finno-Ugric roots for Russians however is nothing new in itself, but the question is whether we want to recognize them.

- Potential Finno-Ugric ancestry may seem like a very offensive for Russians, he writes.

Putin's alleged Vepsian roots are not worth to get mad too, because VI Lenin, and Vyacheslav Molotov had Mordva roots, say Prozes.

- Finno-Ugric roots do not necessarily mean a great love to his own tribe, he points out.

Recently, Finland has been discussed in particular the persecution faced by Mari in Mari Republic. Prozes has, however, find that during Putin's reign the attitude towards the Finno-Ugric peoples of Russia have improved in the upper management.

Inače, sreća po Ruse je što su svi ti narodi ili malobrojni i odavno hristijanizovani ili ako nisu, onda pripadaju potpuno nenasilnim religijama.

New Russian Patriarch has Finno-Ugric Roots

Kirill himself has never played down his family background. In fact, he has regularly and proudly told people about his grandfather, Vasily, who was born in 1879 in the Lukoyanov district of what was then the Nizhny Novgorod guberniya but is now part of the Finno-Ugric Mordvin Republic.

The family had been Christianized and Russified by that time, and Vasily, although he was trained and worked as a machinist, was deeply religious, regularly made contributions to the monastery on Mt. Athos, and raised his seven children to be religious as well, including Mikhail, the father of the new head of the Moscow Patriarchate, who was born in 1907.

The city was named after the Moskva river, on which the city is situated. Finno-Ugric tribes used to live on the territory of the present-day Moscow. The name of the Moskva river most probably originates from an ancient Finnic language. According to different theories the name of the city might mean 'marshy place', 'dark waters', ´mossy plain´, 'gnat' but linguists cannot come to any agreement and those theories haven't been proven yet.