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Federal Law No. 82-FZ on ensuring traditional rights of sparsely distributed indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation.

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Legislation
Date of original text
Date of latest amendment
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Abstract
This Federal Law guarantees the traditional rights of sparsely distributed indigenous peoples to protect their natural habitats, traditional ways of life, economic activities and fishing and hunting rights. An ethnic community with fewer than 50,000 persons living on ancestral land and maintaining traditional ways of life and community management shall be considered a sparsely distributed indigenous peoples. The Government shall validate a common national register of these indigenous communities, and federal executive bodies shall implement federal and regional programmes to protect their traditional rights regarding land tenure, traditional community management of natural resources, and land surveys and monitoring.
Entry into force notes
This Federal Law enters into force on the date of its official publication.
Repealed
No
Source language

English

Legislation Amendment
No
Original title
РОССИЙСКАЯ ФЕДЕРАЦИЯ ФЕДЕРАЛЬНЫЙ ЗАКОН О ГАРАНТИЯХ ПРАВ КОРЕННЫХ МАЛОЧИСЛЕННЫХ НАРОДОВ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ.
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