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Courses of the Buryat language start in Ulan-Ude on 4 April 2008. The organizers – the Regional Union of Young Scholars, Human Rights movement “Erkhe” and Social Inclusion PMT – have decided to join their efforts in the cause of revival of the Buryat language while preparing for the events to commemorate the International Mother Tongue Day. The organizers have an experience of conducting such language courses. Thus Siberian Creative Group used to conduct Buryat courses for its members in 2004-2006, and the RUYS started Buryat courses in Ulan-Ude and Novosibirsk last year. The instructor of Buryat – Jargal Badagarov of RUYS is a talented young linguist working as a lecturer of Mongolian and Buryat at the Oriental Department of the Buryat State University. He is also known for his activities aimed at revitalization and promotion of the Buryat language, such as participation in the creation of the electronic manual of Buryat, editing of Bi-lingual children books “Magic Buryatia” (Project by RUYS, 2004, 2006), translation into Buryat and dubbing of a Mongolian film “A Wise Queen Mandukhay” and so on. It is planned to further disseminate such courses via instruction of instructors in innovative methods of teaching Buryat used by Mr Badagarov.

HR pmt organized a seminar in school # 63 and TV-interview on the occasion of Human Rights Day on the 10 of December. 20 active pupils from 8 till 11 grades the school took part in it. Now they are ready to start HR club in their school and asking for support. Details...

Discussion on racism and xenophobia in Politcafe A new discussion club - Politcafe was opened within the framework of the project “Workshop on Human Rights” on 19 March in the Youth Art Theatre in Ulan-Ude. According to Radjana Dugarova, a moderator of discussion, its goal is to provide all interested citizens with opportunity to talk openly about urgent issues of social, economic, political and cultural development of the Buryat republic and neighboring regions. The topic of discussion “Don’t want to wake up in a new Reich” was prompted by life. On 28 February a young Buryat man was murdered in Moscow by a group of neo-Nazi youth. Details...