Reindeer Blog

The Moscow Times informed that “RusHydro” will not decide on whether to build a dam in Evenkia this year, the company said Friday, after the project was lambasted at public hearings in Krasnoyarsk. The Energy Ministry has finished work on the 2020 general plan of power generation, which predicts a growth in annual power consumption [...]

The Saami Council, the NGO that represents the Sami people in all four countries in which they live have released a strongly worded press release criticising the German bank KfW IPEX for their funding of a giant wind power project in Sami reindeer herding areas, in contravention of the OECD Convention on Multilateral Enterprises. In [...]

Коренным малочисленным народам Севера Сибири и Дальнего Востока предлагается предоставлять земельные участки на праве безвозмездного срочного пользования. Как сообщается на специализированном земельном портале ЗЕМ.РУ 20 января 2010 года Государственная Дума Российской Федерации рассмотрит проект федерального закона № 217488-5  ”О внесении изменений в статью 24 Земельного кодекса Российской Федерации, в статью 3 Федерального закона “О введении в действие [...]

На сайте газеты “Крестьянские ведомости” появилась статья о перспективах получения земельных участков представителям коренных малочисленных народов Севера на праве безвозмездного срочного пользования. По всей видимости речь идет о земельных участках для ведения традиционного хозяйствования, в первую очередь оленеводства, охоты, собирательства и т.д. В статье сказано, что Комитет Государственной Думы по аграрным вопросам одобрил законопроект, позволяющий [...]

(pic: Carl-Johan Utsi) Per-Erik Marsja from Girjas Sami village and the leader of the Association of Swedish Reindeer Herders, Per-Gustav Idivuoma, submitting the application to Gällivare District Court. The Sami Radio in Sweden reports that Girjas Sami village together with the Association of the Swedish Reindeer Herders yesterday left in a lawsuit against the Swedish [...]

The reindeer grazing dispute in Härjedalen county, Sweden, will now be admissible by the European Court of Human Rights. It became clear recently when the European Court of Human Rights gave permission for the Sami Villages complaint. “It is positive,” says Jan Södergren, lawyer for the Sami villages.

A proposal on a new convention on cross-border reindeer grazing between Norway and Sweden is now completed. The two countries’ negotiating delegations finished their work in Stockholm 24 February, and the negotiation results are now submitted to Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Norway and the Agriculture Ministry in Sweden for further follow-up.

(Press release from the Saami Council) The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination criticizes Sweden for numerous forms of discrimination of the Saami people in unusually concrete and strong language, in particular with regard to the Saami people’s right to land. The United Nations has for several years condemned Sweden for not [...]