The Free Nations League, an exiled group comprising people from the dozens of non-Russian ethnic groups inside Russia, said late on June 15 that the Od Vij (New Force) subunit of the formerly unknown Erzya Resistance movement torched a car belonging to Sergei Lyapunov, the head of the town of Zubova Polyana in Russia's Republic of Mordovia. Activists from the Erzya Resistance confirmed the information, saying that Lyapunov had bought his Nissan for "money that he stole from people." They warned that further attacks could follow. Erzya people, along with Moksha people, make up the Uralic-speaking Mordvinian ethnic group. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Idel.Realities, click here.
Underground Opposition Movement Claims It Burned Car Of Official In Russia's Mordovia
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