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Andrei Krivoshapkin received a reply from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Thursday, March 12, 2009 (898 reads)
The Deputy Chairman of the State Assembly of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (Il Tumen), the President of the Association of Indigenous Peoples of Yakutia, the Vice-President of RAIPON Mr. Andrei Krivoshapkin received a reply for his letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Mr. Sergey Lavrov, informed the press-service of the State Assembly of the Republic. In his letter to the Minister, the People's Deputy and the public figure reminded about September 2007, when the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the World.
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Global warming will destroy the Russian North
Thursday, March 12, 2009 (780 reads)
The destruction in the North of Russia, related to global warming could become catastrophic by 2030, said the First Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations of Russia Mr. Ruslan Tsalikov. Such a new was published in the newspaper «Novye Izvestia».
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Russian public addressed Putin and UN to prevent huge hydropower station project in Siberia
Thursday, March 12, 2009 (700 reads)
Today Vladimir Putin received over 8000 signatures of Russian people against the hydropower station construction project in the Evenk municipal district. Indigenous NGOs discuss the violation of the Evenks' rights on the Today WWF-Russia, Greenpeace-Russia, the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, as well as other non-governmental organizations hand in to Prime-Minister Vladimir Putin more than 8000 signatures against the building of the Evenkiya Hydro Electro Station project and in favor of the public revision of the general scheme of the location of energy industry sites till 2020. According to the letter, ‘this project can’t be efficient in any case, because of the high social-economic damage needed for its realization”.
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