Feedback In the report on human rights violations in Russia (September 15, 2025), the UN Special Rapporteur Mariana Katzarova highlighted the particular vulnerability of Indigenous peoples in Russia. She mentioned the imperfection of legislation depriving peoples numbering more than 50,000 people of necessary protection; the facts of the use of repressive laws against Indigenous organizations on “foreign agents”, “undesirable organizations”, “extremism” and “terrorism”; repression against the media (the resources of “Komi Daily” and “Asians of Russia“ received the status of “terrorist“); disproportionate and often forced mobilization of Indigenous men for the war against Ukraine.
Earlier, ADC Memorial and the International Committee of Indigenous Peoples of Russia informed Mariana Katzarova about violations of the rights of Indigenous peoples and other vulnerable groups.