Census of Indigenous Peoples in Russia Begins

Russia Starts Census of Indigenous Peoples – Download and Listen to MP 3 (Source Voice of Russia)

Съезд оленеводов Югры

Пресс-служба Губернатора Ханты-Мансийского автономного округа Югры сообщает, что 10 марта в Ханты-Мансийск съезжаются участники VII съезда оленеводов автономного округа. В его работе  примут участие 50 делегатов (восемь из них – женщины), а также представители Правительства и Думы автономного округа, Ассамблеи коренных малочисленных народов Севера и общественной организации “Спасение Югры”, оленеводческих коллективов “Саранпаульский”, “Казымский” и частных [...]

Ненцы под натиском потепления и “Газпрома”

Традиционный уклад жизни ненцев оказывается под угрозой из-за глобального потепления и планов добычи газа. Этот образ жизни – не затронутый бурями российских революций, гражданских войн и политических репрессий – почувствовал на себе воздействие роста температуры. Он вызывает резкие погодные изменения – посреди весны вдруг приходят метели и морозы, наносящие жестокие удары по и без того [...]

Climate change in Russia’s Arctic tundra: ‘Our reindeer go hungry. There isn’t enough pasture’ (Guardian)

(By Luke Harding, The Guardian) For 1,000 years the indigenous Nenets people have herded their reindeer along the Yamal peninsula. But their survival in this remote region of north-west Siberia is under serious threat from climate change as Russia’s ancient permafrost melts. t is one of the world’s last great wildernesses, a 435-mile long peninsula [...]

Russian Arctic tribe at risk from Yamal gas projects (REUTERS)

By Amie Ferris-Rotman,  67 N LATITUDE, 71 E LONGITUDE, Russia, Oct 6 (Reuters) – The Nenets tribespeople of Russia’s frozen Yamal peninsula have survived the age of the Tsars, the Bolshevik revolution and the chaotic 1990s, but now confront their biggest challenge — under their fur-bundled feet is enough gas to heat the world for [...]

Gazprom pipeline project harming tundra (Regnum)

  (Source: BarentsObserver) Gazprom’s construction of the 1100 km long pipeline between the Bovanenkovo field in Yamal to Ukhta in the Komi Republic is violating environmental legislation, local environmentalists say. The critics are joined by several company employees, who say that the pipeline construction is harming the Arctic nature in the area, Regnum reports. Garbage is dumped [...]

Nenets Herders on National Geographic After Mammoth Find

Yuri Khudi, and Kirill Seretetto during microsurgery on Lyuba, a baby mammoth discovered on the bank of a remote Siberian river in May 2007. Pic© Pierre Stine.  Over a year ago, the discovery of a baby mammoth, that has since been named Lyuba (after the wife of the herder that first found the remains), in [...]

Nenets Reindeer Husbandry and Climate Change

The state Swedish television network SVT recently released a 6 part documentary that is a tour of various peoples and places in the Arctic that are already being affected by climate change, with a Swedish Sami host. While a number of such documentaries are being made these days, what marks this one out is its [...]

“Finno Ugric Peoples Yet to Taste Freedom”

So said Toomas Ilves, the President of Estonia, as he marched his delegation out of last weeks Finno Ugric Congress in Khanty Mansisk. Ilves even called for the European Union to become engaged in protecting Finno Ugric languages. These remarks were designed to irritate Russia, no doubt, as more than 2 million Finno Ugrian people [...]

Олень с лошадью в одной упряжке не ходят

(Pic – Svein Mathiesen, NAO) У оленеводов свои проблемы, решение которых, к сожалению, может затянуться на неопределенный срок, в связи с передачей полномочий от НАО к АО и реорганизацией управлений по делам малочисленных народов и сельского хозяйства окружной Администрации. О том, что жизнь людей, ведущих традиционный для НАО образ жизни (оленеводов, охотников и рыбаков), во [...]