Industrial development of the Arctic has been accompanied by waste accumulation, especially in the vicinity of indigenous villages. This represents a growing threat to safety and health of the Arctic people who – due to traditional living conditions – are exposed to higher levels of contamination in the air, water, soil and their food supply.

Many of us know the “Eurovision” but a few know that it’s not only one musical competition in Europe that can be interesting with ethnic point of view. The music festivals organized in many European countries. One of them is «Liet International» that can be called “Indigenous Eurovision” in Europe. The mission of «Liet International» is to promote song on minorities and indigenous languages with using the modern styles of music.

Within the days of Sami culture 12-13 of November in Murmansk ice arena will be organized the International exhibition of Sami culture. The aims of the exhibition are:

The final phase of the International Festival of the Arctic “The Taimyr attraction” will be organized at regional capital at 7-10 December this year the culture department of Taimyr administration reported. The festival started at July. The head of the cultural department Valentina Satskaya said that professional and amateur artistic groups will participate the festival as well as the authors and performers in different areas of art.

19 September, the Ambassador of Bolivia Ms. Luis Maria Ramos visited the office of Raipon. First vice-president of the Association Rodion Sulyandziga presented the staff and the priorities of the activity and structure to the Ambassador. He thanked the Ambassador of Bolivia for attention. Also he said that Raipon works with the embassies of different countries and it is very important that the people in other countries know about the Russian indigenous peoples as much as possible.

September 13 Russian Public Chamber hosted the roundtable "The legislation development on the rights of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East: Issues and horizons". The meeting was organized by Russian Association of the indigenous peoples of the North (Raipon), Russian Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance (Rica) in cooperation with Russian Public Chamber and International work group for indigenous affairs (IWGIA).

The event were participated by representatives of the federal executive and legislative authorities, and the indigenous peoples. The discussion focused on the results of the Russian Government obligations to improve the legislation on the indigenous rights.