[VyacheslaV]

Exactly. This is part of his campaign to deny Turkic participation of Russian ethnogenesis and history by projecting it to us, western neighbours of Russia.

I simply found this disgusting, he is basically denying fex. the Tatars their role in forming Russia. This is typical panslavisist nonsense, fully inline with all these aR1an fantasies present at these boards.

However I would like to see more Finnish-Eastern Finno-Ugrians contacts. Cultural cooperation would be fine, though I want to see how Russians react on economic contacts between Finns and Russian FU-people. After all dissociating cultural and other cooperation would produce problems sooner or later.