Theme: indigenous peoples

On November 26, 2013, a fire broke out in Yury Kastarakov’s house in the village of Kazas, Myski District, Kemerovo Oblast. The same thing happened in Vladimir Tokmagashev’s house one month later, on December 29. There were no injuries, but…

In July 2019 ADC Memorial, Mysky local civic organization “Revival of Kazas and Shor people” and Institute for Ecology and Action Anthropology (Germany) submitted information regarding the situation with Shor people and other indigenous peoples of Russia to Committee on…

In July 2019 ADC Memorial, Mysky local civic organization “Revival of Kazas and Shor people” and Institute for Ecology and Action Anthropology (Germany) submitted information regarding the situation with Shor people and other indigenous peoples of Russia to Committee on…

Pour avoir publié le témoignage d’un Sami homosexuel, un journal norvégien censuré en Russie Read more: Le Monde

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…