Tag: Khanty-Mansiisk

Ending Gubernatorial Elections Seen Weakening Ethnic Autonomies In Remaining ‘Matryoshka’ Districts

November 20, 2014

Staunton, November 20 – Legislators in the two autonomous districts in Tyumen region and the one in Arkhangelsk region, the three remaining “matryoshka” federal subjects, this week simultaneously asked for the elimination of direct elections of their governors in favor of one in which the local legislators themselves would make the decision. Moscow officials say […]

New Russian Film about Northern Peoples’ Rising against Soviet Power in the 1930s Wins Prize in Rome

October 24, 2014

Staunton, October 23 – Aleksey Fedorchenko, a Yekaterinburg director, was awarded the Marcus Aurelius of the Future prize by the Rome Film Festival today for his new move, “Angels of the Revolution,” which tells the story of the rising in the early 1930s of two numerically small peoples of the North, the Khanty and Nentsy, […]