The organisation’s goal is to rally together anti-imperialist activists in the Russian Federation, to train people for administrative purposes, find allies in the international arena, demand for true sovereignty of captive nations in the Russian Federation and strive for their right of self-determination.
The social and political platform so far unites Buryat, Ingrian, Cossack, Kalmyk, Tatar and Erzya activists. However, according to representatives of the League of Free Nations, increasingly more ethnic minorities in the Russian Federation are joining the movement.
Vladimir Dovdanov, one of the leaders of the League of Free Nations, expects Bashkirs, Tatars and people from the Caucasus to join the organisation as well.
He told the news agency ELTA that the organisation was established because their nations, all 22 republics and more than 200 small ethnic nations, are dying out in Russia, are being assimilated by Russia and their cultures are disappearing.
He had to move to Lithuania because the organisation held a rare protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and urged all young people in the Russian Federation not to go to war and not to participate in the crimes perpetrated by the Russian army.
Dovdanov, Deputy Chairman of the Congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk People, emphasised that Kalmyks were deported to Siberia twice and Russia committed genocide against Kalmyks during the Russian Civil War and in 1943. As many as 120,000 Kalmyks were killed in the Russian Civil War, which accounts for half of the nation.
On 23 July, the League of Free Nations will hold peaceful rallies in various cities of the world, including Vilnius, seeking to consolidate anti-imperialist movements.
The date was chosen because the USA had declared the third week of July the Captive Nations Week to show solidarity with nations oppressed by authoritarian governments.
Dovdanov added that the organisation has addressed US President Joe Biden asking to help the captive nations free themselves of the colonial oppression of the Russian Federation.
In Vilnius, the rally will take place at 2 p.m. 23 July in Cathedral Square.
