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On May 18, 1944, the Crimean Tatar people were deported en masse from Crimea to remote regions of Central Asia and beyond the Urals. The memory of this event – when a purge descended upon an entire people, when individuals were labeled…

Coal mining has inflicted irreparable harm on the environment – the rivers and reservoirs, air, and land are heavily polluted. The indigenous peoples can not carry out their traditional economic activities – hunting and farming. For many indigenous peoples, ancestral…

Debates Indígenas: The cost of fighting for indigenous people and environmental rights in Russia Coal mining is destroying the forests of Siberia. Contamination of the taiga and rivers is harming the Shor people, who live from hunting, gathering and fishing….

The third video – the third story ‘Kazas Village’ about the indigenous people of West Siberia by Yana Tannagasheva: “The Kazas settlement was basically destroyed in 2013-2014: the coal company Yuzhnaya, which was operating an open pit coal mine and…

Natalya Sokolova, our beloved colleague and friend, passed away on May 8, 2021. For many years she has participated in anti-fascist demonstrations in St. Petersburg on this day, and we have always celebrated this date together, even when we lived…

The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to adequate housing will include information received from civil society in a report to be presented at the UN General Assembly in 2021 and at the UN Human Rights Council session in 2022….