Indigenous Russia Portal Publishes Five Maps Showing where Native Peoples Live and 70 Places Where They are in Conflict with Russian Companies

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Mar. 20 – The Indigenous Russia portal, which tracks developments among the numerically smallest nations within the current borders of the Russian Federation, has published a list of five maps showing where these people live and also the 70 places where they have come into conflict with Russian companies developing natural resources on their territories.
    The list (indigenous-russia.com/archives/42467) includes hypertext links to five maps, including a 2025 map of where the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East live (indigenous-russia.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Indigenous-peoples-of-the-North-Siberia-and-Far-East-of-the-Russian-Federation.jpg).
    But perhaps most useful is a map from 2008 showing 70 places where efforts by Russian companies to extract the natural resources from the territories of the indigenous peoples and a listing of the issues involved (indigenous-russia.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2013-1.jpg and indigenous-russia.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2008-3.pdf).