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• Indigenous peoples call on Nornickel’s global partners to demand environmental action March 11, 2021
  Nornickel’s multibillion-dollar worth mining- and metallurgical plants on the Siberian tundra are key to deliver metals for the electromobility industry. The company produces one third of the global supply of nickel and has some of the largest factories in the world for copper and cobalt. All three metals are in growing demand as Europe, Asia […]
• Stop the terror against human rights organizations and civil society in the Russian Federation. Written statement submitted to the UN Human Rights Council March 10, 2021
  Human Rights CouncilForty-sixth session22 February 19 March 2021Agenda items 3 and 4Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Written statement* submitted by Yakutia - Our Opinion, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status. The Secretary-General has received the following written statement which is […]
• Vulnerable Communities: How has the COVID-19 Pandemic affected Indigenous People in the Russian Arctic? March 9, 2021
  By Pavel Devyatkin With the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the world has found itself in a global health emergency, which has caused a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and brought normal life around the world to a halt for the better part of a year. The Arctic Institute’s COVID-19 series offers an […]
• In Russian tundra tragedy, up to 80,000 reindeer might have starved to death March 5, 2021
  Herders in the Yamal Peninsula despair as thick layers of ice prevent their animals from getting access to the indispensable lichen. Locals in the far northern Russian region believe between 60,000-80,000 animals might have died of starvation over the past few months. The tragedy follows the formation of a thick layer of ice across major parts of […]