Online-Side-Event Tuesday, July 5, 2022 Time: 13:00 – 14:30 Languages: English / Russian The run on raw materials such as copper, nickel, oil and natural gas is destroying the habitat of indigenous communities worldwide. The concept of “Free, Prior and Informed Consent” (FPIC) protects the right of self-determination of indigenous communities. In countries with severe […]
On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. As a result of rocket attacks on Ukrainian settlements, thousands of civilians were killed - representatives of different ethnic groups and confessions, indigenous peoples, including hundreds of children. Russian organizations of indigenous peoples: Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and […]
On February 20, 2014, the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine, as a result of which the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, the birthplace of the indigenous Crimean Tatar, Karaite and Krymchak peoples, were occupied, as well as certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation […]
For Russia’s Exiled Ethnic Activists, Ukraine War a ‘Window of Opportunity’. Leyla Latypova May 23, 2022 People gather to form the shape of Russia as it appears on the world map. Sergei Krasnoukhov / TASS As the death toll from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine rises, throwing Kremlin imperialism into sharper focus, activists representing the indigenous non-Slavic […]