Uralicist Movement

The Uralicist Movement was started in mid-2007 by a group of former Russian citizens of Uralic extraction, for the most part either Mari, Udmurt, or Komi, in the wake of ethnic persecution being carried out by nations and extremist groups in that area. The initial aim of this movement was to band together the Uralic peoples in solidarity in order to help each individual group preserve its culture. It was inspired in large part by the relative success of the Finnish Cooperation Organization.

The movement was rather obscure at first, with only around fifty members, mostly hiding out in the city of Syktyvkar. However, the additions of Russo-Udmurt Jew Ovdey Shlomov, various former citizens of the Finnish Cooperation Organization, two Russian Orthodox overseers, and finally, outspoken Sointula Finn Jarkko Salomäki, brought the group into the public eye by the beginning of October of 2007. Members subscribing to the ideologies of Uralicism were often the target of supremacist groups, however as they gained momentum, they gained support from abroad, predominantly in the areas once known as Finland, Hungary, and Estonia, but also in the former Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Ontario and the former American states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

The movement was, for the most part, one of peaceful solidarity, however, it did have one brief moment of violent revolution on 2 March 2008 when several Russian supremacists tried to run the Uralic peoples out of Syktyvkar entirely, and were given a rude welcome in a gigantic street fight that ended with 229 dead (139 supremacists and 90 Uralics) and tens of thousands wounded.

After the peaceful Three-Day Revolution brought Uralics together from all over the world and garnered their cause unprecedented support, the movement took a different turn - the establishment of a Uralic home state, which 12 days after the end of the aforementioned Revolution would culminate in the foundation of Uralica, with its most fervent surviving members becoming the initial 28-member Uralican Tribal Council.