Indigenous peoples in the Russian Federation

Publisher: IWGIA
Number of pages: 4
Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Russia, Rusia
Region publication is about: Arctic, Ártico
Release year: 2012

Tags: Human rights

The Russian Federation is home to more than 100 different peoples. Of these, 41 are legally recognised as “indigenous, small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East”; others are still striving to obtain this status, which is conditional upon a people:

• having no more than 50,000 members;
• maintaining a traditional way of life;
• inhabiting certain remote regions of Russia;
• identifying itself as a distinct ethnic community.

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