the Mari El Republic

Yoshkar-Ola is the capital city of the Mari El Republic, Russia.

Neopaganism in the Mari El Republic.

The head of government in the Mari El Republic is the Head (formerly President).

The majority of Maris today live in the Mari El Republic, with significant populations in the Tatarstan and Bashkortostan republics.

It also forms a connection via Chuvashia through the southern suburbs of Cheboksary and Novocheboksary to the Mari El Republic and the Vyatka Highway.

When the Soviet Union disintegrated, the Mari ASSR became the Mari El Republic, a federal subject of the Russian Federation.

It is written using the Hill Mari Cyrillic script and is co-official with Russian and Meadow Mari in the Mari El Republic.

The region includes the Mari El Republic and parts of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, the Kostroma Oblast, the Kirov Oblast, the Republic of Tatarstan.

Parliament has already voiced its concern about the situation in the Mari El Republic: that was two years ago back in May 2005 after Mari national leader Vladimir Kozlov was brutally beaten up.

It is located in the north of the republic and borders with the Mari El Republic in the north, Cheboksarsky District in the east, Alikovsky District in the south, and with Yadrinsky District in the west.

On 30 December it was reported that the perpetrator was an ethnic Russian convert to Islam from the city of Volzhsk, in the Mari El Republic, by the name of Pavel Pechenkin, who changed his name to Ar-Rusi after conversion to Islam.

It borders with the Mari El Republic in the north, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast in the west, the Republic of Mordovia in the southwest, Ulyanovsk Oblast in the south, and the Republic of Tatarstan in the east and southeast.