Pecularities of a foreign legislation regarding North

• Main Author: S I Protopopov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2013
• Subjects: саами; народ саами; Саметинг; саамский парламент; коренное население Севера; правовое регулирование в области защиты коренного населения; гражданство и этнические меньшинства; закон о Саметинге; закон о саами; политика Норвегии в отношении коренного населения; парламенты Арктики; Law; K; Norway; sami
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/30571209d1284b1f9ea7a62dc255e949

Author looks into the statutory regulation in the field of protecting rights and interests of indigenous peoples of the North. He investigates principles and content of the legal regulation of issues regarding the Sami people in Norway. For the purpose of the study, author analyses the official Norwegian policy approach to the institution of citizenship taking into account interests of ethnic minorities. The article contains author’s translation of Act No. 56 concerning the Sameting (the Sami Parliament), passed by the Norwegian Parliament on 12 June 1987, from English into Russian considering recent version in Norwegian.