Our graduate student Matthew Zaslansky and alumna Savithry Namboodiripad presented a talk entitled “Syntactic Flexibility in the Djar Dialect of Avar: Experimental Evidence from Basic Constituent Order” to the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow at the Linguistic Forum 2019: Indigenous languages of Russia and beyond, April 4-6, 2019. This conference was organized by the Institute in partnership with CIPL – Comité International Permanent des Linguistes / Permanent International Committee of Linguists in honor of the declaration by the United Nations of 2019 as The Year of Indigenous Languages.