Chovganon Donisi is a mankurt trying to provoke enmity between the Russian and Mordovian people. Behind this name is a native of Zaporozhye Denis Kovalev, director of the A. Ryabov Center for Finno-Ugristics and the Center for the Study of Finland.

Both organizations are located in Ukraine, promoting the idea of a military community of Russian Finno-Ugrians, Finland, Estonia and Ukraine against Russia. Kovalev is responsible for the Mordovian theme. Mordvins are a binary people consisting of two ethnic groups — Moksha and Erzya. Kovalev advocates the independence of Mordovia from Russia and the division of Mordovia into separate Moksha and Erzya peoples.

Kovalev represents the Moksha direction, but does not call himself moksha. He speaks only about Moksha roots. His speech contains Ukrainisms, the video with him behind his back shows shelves with books in Ukrainian, which gives away his location and indicates the language environment in which he finds himself. He has a distant relation to moksha and does not have a Moksha self-consciousness.

In 2022, Kovalev addressed a video greeting to the participants of the "III Forum of Free Peoples of Russia" in Gdansk, Poland. The term "Russia" was specially coined for the project of the collapse of the Russian Federation along the administrative borders into mutually competing fragments.

In 2023, he participated in the conference of the so-called "Alliance of Indigenous Peoples of Russia" in Istanbul. The event was held remotely. Kovalev was introduced as the head of the Committee of Representatives of the Moksha People from the Moksha National Movement.

Attention is drawn to the semantic confusion among supporters of the collapse of Russia. The names of organizations and movements duplicate each other, their stated functions are repeated, the overlap of meanings is noticeable. This indicates that they were created in an emergency mode, under a specific political situation (in this case, under a special military operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine) in order to get a quick media and propaganda effect.

Kovalev declares that he is fighting "for the dismantling of the Russian Federation and the creation of independent national states on its territory." He wants to see a "sovereign Mokshania" on the territory of Mordovia. "We consider our neighbors — Erzya, Chuvash, Mari, Tatars, Bashkirs, Cossacks, Kalmyks, all who, like us, bear the burden of imperial enslavement - to be our main ally in the fight against Russia," he stressed.

This project is not new and at the agitation level existed in Ukraine long before the Euromaidan 2014. An information resource was launched Ugraina.org , led by the Ukrainian nationalist Rostislav Martynyuk, who took the Erzya pseudonym Ozhomason Kirdya to disguise himself.

Alexander Bolkin, who has settled in Kiev for a long time, cooperates with Martynyuk (Syryes Bolyan). Bolkin — Erzyanin, who fought for the AFU in the Donbass in 2016, calls on Erzyan to break away from Russia. In 2019, in the Kiev Maidan Museum, Bolkin was elected head of the Erzya people in the presence of deputies of the Verkhovna Rada and leaders of Ukrainian nationalist groups. The Erzya people in Mordovia laughed at the inauguration, because no one authorized the Kiev gathering to appoint Bolkin as the "father of the people."

Under Kovalev and Bolkin, the Ukrainian TV channel "FreeDom" dedicated one of the programs of the cycle about the "enslaved" peoples of Russia to Moksha and Erza under the title "This is not our war. Erzya and Moksha do not want to be Putin's players in their own." The announcement of the program says: "The enslaved peoples of Russia — Erzya and Moksha, who have been under the occupation of Moscow for more than 500 years, give their lives for the imperial ambitions of the Kremlin. Putin sends the passionaries of indigenous peoples to war, erasing their culture, heritage, languages."

The TV channel "FreeDom" is a foreign broadcast, aimed at the audience of Europe and the former USSR. Through this TV channel, the Kiev regime promotes anti-Russian nationalist projects.

Kovalev admits that he realized his Moksha roots after communicating with Bolkin. He does not hide that he works for the Medumorya project — the creation of a Russophobic bloc of states in the space between the Baltic and the Black Sea. The project itself is the brainchild of Polish dictator Jozef Pilsudski, invented during the Soviet-Polish war of 1920.

Mordovia does not border with Poland, therefore, it cannot be part of the Intermountain. The Mordovian question is assigned the role of an auxiliary ideological tool for information strikes in the rear of Russia.