Problems with Reviving and Developing the Kryashen Media in Modern Times

Abstract

This article considers the revival of the Kryashen media between 1992 and 2002. There was an increase in the Tatar media’s attention to the Kryashen problems during that period, along with the overall advance of the Kryashen periodicals. The late 1980s and early 1990s witnessed the rise in national self-awareness among the Kryashen population and the emergence of the Kryashen social movement. Here, the efforts of various public organizations, figures, leaders, and activists of the Kryashen movement to promote the cultural and educational development of the Kryashens through the revival of their printed media are analyzed. Their role in establishing and publishing the «Kryashen Suze» (‘Word of the Kryashens’), one of the first private newspapers in the Russian media space, is highlighted. It is also shown that the endeavors of the Kryashen movement activists to expand their reach to the republican media were successful: they started and broadcasted programs on the national radio and television channels and created online platforms about the Kryashens.