It was the last day of spring at the Fifth World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples in Khanty-Mansiysk. Former US citizen and therefore President of sovereign Estonia Toomas Ilves dressed as an Estlandian farmer narrated the following to the city and world. Firstly, only Hungarians, Estonians and Finns of 24 Finno-Ugric peoples “have chosen the so-called European values”. It is difficult to say now if he also implied several hundred Vepsians, but he had no doubts that “many Finno-Ugric peoples have yet to make this choice”. Secondly, let us continue quoting: “Once you (i.e. the colonial ethnically degraded people) have tasted freedom, you will realize how much of it is sacrificed in the name of surviving or just ‘getting by’. The flapping wings of a butterfly (what a metaphor!) can cause a hurricane. The Finno-Ugric people may indeed be small butterflies among all of humanity, but it is a concern for all of humanity to ensure that these butterflies not flap their wings in the wrong place the wrong time, in a way that might be fatal to those much larger than the butterflies”.

What construction are we to place on that? That the small as butterflies ethnic groups should struggle for independence otherwise they will not survive. It is another pair of shoes that the application for independence should be submitted to those who accept and support it. Vice versa, instead of enjoying the consequences of global hurricane they may have their wings broken. Since the call of the UN member-state president cannot be ethnically exclusive, let us assume that the Russian-speaking butterfly in Estonia (115,000 “non-citizens” or 9 per cent of the population) now also has the right to sovereignty. So, this butterfly should apply for the independence “in the right time”, for example, at a new paroxysm of the national-idiotism in the city hosts; and in “to the right place”, i.e. to the institution indicated by Vladimir Visotsky – the Sport-Lotto Committee.

In similar cases, the speaker is usually asked about his health, and left free of loads corresponding to the dispute. It’s a pity that Konstantin Kosachev, Chairman of State Duma Committee for Foreign Affairs, has taken the Estonian President not only for a constitutionally elected official but also for a mentally competent personl. Therefore, he tried to tell him something about the political correctness. The further monologue of the president could have stolen the entire entertainment show including ethnical performances and reindeer racing. Unfortunately, the president failed. Aggrieved by the usurper of the Finno-Ugric freedom as well as by the suppressed self-consciousness of the colonialist victims, Maestro Ilves left Show Complex Ugra Classic high-minded.

Let us summarize out of the genre appropriate to the subject. It is well that the external positioning of Baltic state officials (we have already wrote about the contraposition of the gays to the hammer and sickle by Lithuanian officials) looks so caricature that all other customs of our sovereign neighbors to the Leningrad, Pskov and Kaliningrad Regions may be attractive only to hereditary reindeer-breeders. And even at the end of an ethnic feast. It is also well that these state rulers a bit barbarized in the Eurofreedom themselves give as a pretext to take care of the well-being of our compatriots in Estonia. Probably they will also make abstracts from the speech of their “Lord”. At least now they have a right to ask him why are the Russians in Estonia worse that the Finno-Ugric peoples in Russia who have their own national territorial subdivisions and cultural autonomies?

It is bad that the meeting of “the People’s Front” against the Soviet occupation is going on in Estonia in the 17th year of its statehood. Is it possible to discus neighborly future in these conditions? It is bad that we over-concerned with the political correctness let visiting VIP-DJs not only violate the norms of the diplomatic decorum but also undermine the fundamentals of the state that is hosting them. What do you think, if President Ilves would take the liberty of calling the Finnish or Swedish Lapps and Saamis to freedom? What would the rest of Europe speak about it?

Moreover, the fact that we see no response of the European Union to the politically scandalous behavior of the Baltic state leader suggests that there is a kind of subordination between the trainer and trained. And the matter in question no less, no more is a provocation of separatism in the third largest Finno-Uhric community (after the Slavic and Turk ones), which population totals more than 3 million citizens of Russia. In so doing, he did it in the region where there are not even epic grounds for it. In this case, what is the stabilizing role of Europe in the areas where separatism pre-requisites are on hand, for example, in the Balkans or Caucasus?

So, proud Finno-Ugric Ilves not only came but also left. Without medical examination.