Indigenous yet unrecognised:The legal reality of the Izhma Komi people

• Published in: The Polar Journal
• Main Author: Sikora, Karolina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: reality of law; indigenous rights; Russian North; Izhma Komi; empirical legal research; /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/5/17/2; name=International political science; Izhma; Izhma-Komi; The Polar Journal; Siberia
• Online Access: https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/59e0849a-e7c0-4ba2-a737-a2b10931ab39; https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2022.2137092; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85143407312&partnerID=8YFLogxK; http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85143407312&partnerID=8YFLogxK

The Russian Federation defines indigeneity narrowly. Under Russian law, only those groups that inhabit the territories of the North, Siberia and the Far East, comprise fewer than 50,000 people, maintain a traditional, nature-based way of life, and self-identify as a separate ethnic group can be reco...