Indigenous peoples in the Russian Federation
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.