I think it will be hard for any southerner to live in Udmurtia. even ethnically close immigrants from Ukraine, of which there are many here in recent years, suffer from the mental difference with the population and from the living conditions in this climate. also, Udmurts are mostly russified and to enter their culture and society you need to live in somewhere in far from cities and towns. Last summer, Udmurt activist, paganist, and nationalist albert Razin committed an act of self-immolation in the center of Izhevsk because of the new language law. Only it is unlikely that action will force Udmurt youth to spend their time learning the Udmurt language.
for a better understanding of the Udmurt mentality, you need to understand that in their view, the worst thing you can do against your enemy is hang yourself on the gate at his house
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