RFE/RL on Russian policies towards small indigenous peoples
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RFE/RL on Russian policies towards small indigenous peoples
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RFE/RL Russian Federation Report
Vol. 3, No. 14, 18 April 2001
A Survey of Developments in the Regions Outside Moscow Prepared by
the Staff of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S POLICY TOWARD THE NORTH LAMBASTED. Addressing the
fourth congress of the numerically small peoples of the North,
Siberia, and the Far East, State Duma Deputy Chairman (Fatherland-All
Russia) Artur Chilingarov declared that the federal program for the
economic and social development of the small people has fallen apart,
"Vremya MN" reported on 14 April. According to Chilingarov, entire
raions and remote villages in the Evenk, Koryak, Nenets, and Chukotka
autonomous okrugs, and Amur, Irkutsk, Kamchatka, Magadan, Sverdlovsk,
Tomsk, and Chita oblasts, and Primorskii Krai have not received their
northern delivery for the last three years. The daily argued that the
indigenous people in extreme cases can survive without the delivery by
hunting, fishing, and deer herding. But this is only possible when
they are allowed to do so. The new Koryak Autonomous Okrug governor
recently changed a decree of his predecessor which practically
deprived local Itelmen of the right to gather food, primarily through
fishing. The daily also reported that activists for ethnic minorities
basically welcome the idea of enlarging federation subjects through
abolishing the ethnic-based autonomous okrugs because these autonomous
okrugs now exist only for the oligarchs of extractive industries. Also
addressing the congress, Sergei Kharyuchi, the president of the
Association of the Numerically Small Peoples of the North, Siberia,
and the Far East, also accused the federal government of failing in
its duties. He charged that Russian government has not fulfilled any
of three separate plans to help the approximately 200,000 members of
these nationalities, according to Interfax. JAC
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