Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on July 5, 2021, has issued its resolution concerning the legal appeal of Mr. Andrey Danilov, a representative of the Saami people, one of the indigenous small-numbered peoples of the Far North. In 2019,…
Theme: indigenous peoples
The Seventh Story: Protests – the video project “Ten Stories About Coal” by Yana Tannagasheva
In 2013, Indigenous residents in Myski held single-person pickets for six months. The protest movement only grew from there… People against coal handling near their villages because they knew that their children would not be able to breathe, they knew…
The Sixth Story: Air. By Yana Tannagasheva
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…
Crimes and Identity
Is it possible to speak of one people’s guilt before another? Is it necessary? Is it correct? The 20th century saw the emergence of the concept of collective national guilt and the need for “atonement.” This concept was extremely important…
“Water is life”. There are no clean bodies of water left in our Kemerovo region. Coalmining takes the lives of Indigenous Peoples” – Yana Tannagasheva.
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…