Theme: indigenous peoples

A small Norwegian news service publishing news from the cross-border Barents region is taking Russia’s media regulation agency Roskomnadzor to court in an attempt to overturn the country’s ban on its online content. The Kirkenes-based Barents Observer publishes news in English and Russian, covering news…

Moscow city court has accepted a claim by The Barents Observer to challenge Russia’s censorship and media regulation agency Roskomnadzor’s arguments to ban the newspaper. The Norwegian-based, bi-lingual newspaper has been blocked in Russia since February after it refused to…

Moscow City Court rejected a lawsuit against Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), which was made by Johannes Rohr, a German expert on indigenous peoples. Rohr has challenged the decision of the FSB to ban him from entering Russia until 2069….

Yana and Vladislav Tannagashev, representatives of the Shor indigenous people from South West Siberia, activists from the non-registered organization “Revival of Kazas and Shor people” were forced to leave Russia with their children and applied for refugee status in a…

The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has published its Concluding Observations for the Russian Federation following its 62nd session in September 2017. The Committee issued important recommendations related to the issues raised in ADC Memorial’s alternative report…

Alternative Report on the Implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities by the Russian Federation. The 4th Monitoring Cycle, October 2017 Violation of the rights of indigenous peoples. The situation of indigenous shor and teleut peoples…