Talk:Saransk

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Sources used in expanding the main article
The additional information I have added to stub article comes from Finnish sources, written in Finnish language by Finnish reporters and visitors vistiting Saransk. There were number of newspaper articles published in Finnish newspapers, in addition shown in Finland´s TV news when the Finno Ugrian annual World Congress was held in Saransk. Those honourable quests taking part of this jubilee meeting indluded among others; President of the Russian Federation Mr Vladimir Putin, President of Republic of Finland, Prime Minister of Republic of Hungary, the honourable quests from orher Finno Ugrian "kansat" (peoples) living inside the Russian Federation. The Estonians were not asked to participate due political reasons by the Russians. If this event with a result of number of describtions was not noticed at all in English speaking world, that is just lack of their reliable information. The inhabitants in Saransk can tell and, if wrong, delete the information or confirm the facts which are written in main article. All knowledge are NOT PUBLISHED in English or Russian languages. I hope that one Mordvian (of origin either Erza or Moksha) adds to the main sources newspaper articles from Finnish daily newspapers Helsingin Sanomat, Aamulehti, and Turun Sanomat in addition to YLE1 TV-News. I hope these reliable Finnish sources are taken as proven facts.

Reorganization and rewrite
I have reordered the information in the article to better conform to encyclopedic standards. Any informtion I have added came straight from the Russian language version of the article.

I have also removed some information for the following reasons:

The note that the Russian portion of the population has increased due to economic migration is, of course true, but without a larger context is not terribly helpful in an article that is this cursory. If the demographics section is expanded properly I would recommend including this information again.

The touching, but rather out of style, sentence about the best view of Saransk was removed because, again, it was an opinion (although I'm sure a correct one) and not a fact.

The arrival and departure times for the airport as well as the sentence about the parking lot were removed because, damn it, this is a city of 300,000 people and not a village, so please let's not make it sound like one.

Crcodilicus —Preceding undated comment added 17:30, 7 January 2011 (UTC).

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