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gore today his guest in spotlight as representative of one of the indigenous peoples of russia discussing if it's difficult to preserve their identity in the twenty first century. hello again and welcome to the show. i'm going to name my guest says. there are dozens of indigenous peoples and each of them with its unique culture our guest represents the people living in russia. how difficult is it to preserve their identity in the twenty first century in which the common problems people have to face to questions and we have the vice president russian

association of indigenous peoples of the north in our studio to. the president of the russian association of northern people. belongs to the small to. begin with russia's far east and count about one and a half thousand people yet only four hundred of them claim the gaze of language the situation is similar for many natives who struggle to preserve their ethnic identity there are forty five of the regional peoples in russia some of them totaling below ten persons. today to talk about life and problems faced by russia's indigenous peoples. thank you so much for coming to our program. speaking about the you to head the first person who comes to everybody's mind in russia and all over the world. after the oscar winning film by famous japanese director. can you tell us what to do.

to this character today. and a model for them to follow as it's right and explaining who you are. you have to mention those to use their souls. dark on your sleeve i think that not only was the but for research people also proud of their sue use all of that then you know when he's not invented the character in your really took the risk you see great russian explorer our senior. who many of our own maneuver personally across at the expediency he was guiding an expedition around the area where i'm from. that's why i'm sure there were things filmed inserted there soon through that ship shows up it's with the suit and what's more important think that he's a real hero but you wouldn't but he does and the way he conducted himself with

regard to the world around him and the people around him he's worth following me at the premier to the i don't even though he was not a hero but a regular absolutely that's right. before russians and the modern western civilization came to you to russia because keep your ancestors were shattered and they worship stories of nature it's a. tradition today and yes of course we preserve them so you still follow your own religion but i didn't absolutely. we still have our own religion furthermore rock until you do it i'm not a typical you do because my friends and schoolmates usually went after school as soon as classes moreover we would go hunting. but some movie guard if they go just to shoot specifically yes to shoot you can't i yeah i guess for me i was reading books you know at the time i liked reading along with books and simple so when i

came back home after graduating from an institute i started learning the basics that weren't supposed hold my culture. and i suddenly found out that my school mates. with whom i used to spend so much time. professional controversy with the community and they would follow all the rituals before haunting media though does this help or is it just sedition. i can give you an example just give us it may seem a bit tragic to you. when you drive from our village there is a hallway or wrong with a small house on top of that you know where we usually just spirits. one says we're strangers came to our place in they didn't know the union of the house they were all drawn so they started shooting at the house but why good old just for fun. for no reason just to shoot at something.

we told them that they should not do so what could but evidently alcohol and their youth which will aid yeah later a tragedy happened to the children of two of them died g h but it happened when they went hunting and fishing. and they learned about it when they came back of the . lot of them but so i think the recent thing behind these traditions and worshipping. they're not just created for nothing. as far as i know salmon is in your culture are not only religious figures they're also doctors and weather forecasters and it's really worth really can't see or somebody writes a super our book and see and then what would a can really test whether it's. what was. you know going to do we have more than medicine for you so we combine these two things to modern medicine and sham and we put them sure that there was such

a poet so you know your village is only a few hundred kilometers away from the bot of sadistical so when someone if you can bring one death in there to there is more deposits on our little. of course. shermans do not exclude hospitals just like hospitals do not exclude a sham and you know there was a case when a young man was sick body and they could not diagnose that case are roughly usual so they brought him to lead you felt worse and they sent him back to die at home a part of the movie explained that they could not cure him or give a diagnosis but he went after your doctor scheme and saw that he was fine what exactly is the chairman as an educated man can explain what that means to me as a psychotherapist in general or did they use him her if there is something else what is it. both are psychologically impaired and knowledge of curbs and other things. or school concussions and all that is in general plus

a strong psychotherapy. and what's her attitude towards shamanism in modern western countries. is that it's never too negative and yes i think it's artificial . that you. are from us. just because you know that the morning world is based on certain rules we deplorably anybody who is a certain rule is an advert for real shams or good people but on the whole then i don't like it because look at the risk too many things which are artificial and have nothing in common with the reality you see that's why i don't like it. sharon help another person say there's a sick person moscow because what if he comes to a village first talents help you can share and help in this situation or is it supposed to be somebody from your village they belong to your religion living in your place your world people from bloody will stalk do you come to our shaman. yes i help them. think that. they would have come. to same time i think

there's a psychological element is very strong here when you believe your help your social your believe in. when russians came to your area your people were generally hunting and fishing. those were the two major occupation see their way of life was raised on these two activities have preserved your way of life and how this civilization influence that. we have preserved our way of life and about eighty percent of our people are doing the same things as they used to do. i mean that in the modern world and individual hunter can feed himself by hunting and fishing it himself and his family got to meet. can you do it and it's not just consing there are many other things in the all you can so things you've got until you've gone before sea first but you'll see sable for years and meet gene sang many other

expensive herb. for example there is a type of fern in our lands which doesn't grow anywhere else there are always so the japanese come to buy it from us or a short break and well known type of bush well you know we also have another type of fur forms. and. female plants for the couple and only female clients are any value and so is prepared in a certain way and then it's used to release talk scenes which from the body we didn't use are going to that's why eat is so valuable to use occasionally to put them all those years in medicine yes so there are many things involved we also have a small sawmill seems unable to live not too extravagant bugs to have everything we need one says. first the rice president russian association and the

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welcome back to spotlight i will love and just to remind to my guest in the studio today is. first rice president russian association of indigenous peoples of the north. so. we're all doing that we're doing to merge into one single super civilization probably a chinese one that will absorb all this whole thing groups was an idea you know i think. but then you praise or you're closely always supposed to fight but it was supposed to be a fight between a tribe and a civilized nation basically going to any additional you have the additional no i think it's supposed to be a fraud but it's not but it goes nobly to gain somebody that we're fighting for what we're fighting for someone. in my opinion. group should preserve its roots and it's here important it's important from the viewpoint of diversity. you know

people all over the world are trying to preserve that she's showing a responsible type of plant and if you for an animal in north drew war i think we should do the same for various ethnic groups. i'm not saying so when we should do it instead of them and you know what we need to give them a chance with the she's with the number we need to make it possible for them to preserve their culture and. you know there's a theory that any kind of fly video or the against extinct when you get done just going to be an ecological catastrophe so he's absolutely sure that it's here is diana nothing will happen needs use or not share and then dispensable parts of any system don't you find that curious to see it in fact. yeah. you know i don't think so but i moved in. my opinion of the storm to some extent the world champion followed the development of the european civilization. i mean economic laws are

the most important ones they have a game more important than the laws of nature should be incipient on this right and i think if the world continues to take this way he will lead us into a dead end there are different civilizations you know i think they can suggest a way out so that we cannot avoid actually just dead end job completely with the thing that the peoples of the north and your people belong to different so i say shit. on your part of course. in fact i can tell you a story that happened yes i will be shipping them where i come from. this was back in one thousand nine hundred eighty there was an agreement signed by both territory not that it's clear it was given to the south korean company for three years i show it which and this company promised to do a lot for us which were they supposed to do with the territory exploitations than you do in other words they took timber from your area as if you mean they were just

doing this territory by adding to the agreement k'naan there were a number of those nations headed by the governor and the vice president of the company in the automobile company. yes but they do other things as well as a consortium right yes so they offered to build on our territory everything they hear when the so-called civilized regions always roads buildings yanks are the idolatrous yes but our people rejected it when we said we don't want it. to live the way we want. wars and we're interested in economic development not at the price of destroying our nature. unfortunately our way of living that in that time i had to go into politics we. when are you sure some of the venture of international level. came to us today so then sure many of the appreciate the

supreme soviet of the russian federation. and i had to come there you know score trying to meet him go it was forbidden for me to meet with him but i talked to diffuse into every new to him i managed to talk to him and he held up the indigenous peoples of northern russia are facing. how to balance their traditional lifestyles with the and coaching temptations and pressures of the twenty first century spotlight here they did neither has more. their lifestyles have changed over the last century but it would still be instantly recognisable to their distant ancestors it's a life which still group around reindeer herding hunting and fishing but the resource reaches of the lands they have known for centuries or in increasing demand and their demand is bringing the concerns and opportunities of the more than world into their lives more than a decade ago the discovery of somehow means all and gas deposits begin to intrude

upon the lives of the local population they protested against the big companies and this project for fear of what they thought it may do to their priest in natural environment over time they have become more accepting of the project and they're increasingly aware that with environmental concerns being managed the reason the upside for this society in terms of jobs and better living conditions assumably changes and to do lives of two quarts going habitants the advent of ramana brim of each russian business magnate and owner of the chelsea football club as regional governor from two thousand to two thousand and eight game with an estimated two and a half billion dollars of investment in housing schools medical facilities and infrastructure much of it from his own pocket he has now resigned as governor but to resource development. remains but the region accounting for a fifth of russia's gold production industrial development brings more taxes and more jobs at the same time it's forcing the indigenous communities to adopt

a contemporary way of life and the balance between the time when the customs of their ancestors to the needs. of the wooden world. you saw the video. mentioned. can you tell us the indigenous peoples of the north by to really have to fight against civilization see the scenes as it really puts pressure on you from all sides. so unfortunately we do have to fight quite often. just kill the chimps as well as the situation did they stop it me here so they did shuster when they stopped a tall. and present i mean all the rights for our hunting lands belong to us yes for the conflicts. i can tell you from the history of my people.

for instance she was the nineteen seventies they were at the gate ethnic groups new to here now there are only four. it happened because of tiger. people had to move to join other ethnic groups. in when we were trying to negotiate all these situations. are will never suit could be negotiating so he will go with any manufacturer will be the order because we are in tagging ists but we will never reach an agreement in the go and show you have a sawmill industry too albeit a small facility it's a different thing. industry but you won't be able to destroy your own forest with it. but it depends on how you use it came in much the same to volume so far facilities are small you won't do much with it. two thousand and one i was

among the first to sign an agreement with one of the biggest pokemon companies in the far east because i think that compromises are indispensable and we managed to reach a compromise but we agreed that a part of our territory that was giving forward and so forth so i think that compromises are possible and necessary certainly likeness comes to mind between the indigenous peoples of the north and the american indians they have a big problem with alcohol alcoholism that big problem for antigens and russia. which is but it is a very big problem because yes it was said a biological phenomenon that alcohol influences you so much not in the same way as say russians or poles or europeans in addition to social factors which affect other people see me with us it's also a biological phenomenon. the native peoples don't have the answer to break down

alcohol says so it destroys you more yes it's just more dramatically died just did it and it's not decomposed in the body which means that it acts like a drug and that means that after the first dose the body will always need it like heroin to ask again is it all scientifically proven which they use over a regular your drinks a glass of wine every day and feels fine. for one of your people it's like they've got to take an dose of heroin every day sadly he so how do you fight it is it possible to fight it the laws of the country and you can't adopt your own laws and you will soon own factor in our association proposed a bill to the federation council and actually do supported it in the car will we proposed introducing profit bishan. in the areas where indigenous people live we thought that was very important but the economic grain the government told us.

done because it restricts competition and it's a violation all for economic principles and so forth would go into it when i was arguing with them i said that it would take the most developed or initial of the market economies united states they introduced brought in some places in alaska. to bring down the whole there prohibited to sell alcohol in there so i don't know exactly because of that raised by democracy markets in freedom in some way they're not afraid to enter this restriction to get the seven candidates you and in the united states did so you mean to say that indigenous people have similar problems i mean the russian for annoyance. and so there are a lot of come across as they have to fight of course and there's something to learn from each other history many things we can learn from them going and then they learn from us is of course so for example. for examples in a number of russians retransfer very few unfortunately unless there are laws

similar to international laws. people's rights for example. peoples are represented by the locals or parliaments and governments they participate in decision making which considers theory a future when there are other things i can give you your mall as an example but the among his huge deposits of natural gas gas promise near another companies but at the same time he hit them the top rate with indigenous peoples and their needs for. specialists thank you very much for being with us just a reminder that my guest in the studio today was. the first vice president. of indigenous peoples are that's it for now from all of us here will be back. until then stay the heartache and take it. as he. led. lead.

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