Daily explosions, coal handling, clouds of dust, this is the everyday life of residents in a coal region. Pits spew a tremendous amount of dust into the air during the mining and its processing at coal preparation plants. This dust…
“Water is life”. There are no clean bodies of water left in our Kemerovo region. Coalmining takes the lives of Indigenous Peoples” – Yana Tannagasheva.
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…
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…
On International Migrants Day, 18 December, it is important to highlight the problems which foreigners faced in Russia during the pandemic in 2020. They include not only loss of income and difficulties with a return to the homeland, but also…
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