Antonina Kymytval is the first recognized professional Chukchi female poet. On April 22, she celebrated the 75th anniversary of her birth. In order to congratulate the writer, the acting Governor of Magadan Oblast Vladimir Pecheny came, according to the press service of the regional administration.

On April 29, 2013, the Deputy Chairman of the State Assembly (“Il Tumen”) and President of the Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Andrey Krivoshapkin participated in public hearings on the draft law "On the Commissioner for the rights of Indigenous minorities in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)".

On April 29 in Moscow has been introduced the Russian-Uiltan dictionary, founded by a well-known ethnologist, Lyudmila Missonova. The event was organized by “Sakhalin Energy” company and the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

On March 30, the day after the 7^th Congress, in Salekhard was held the first meeting of the Coordination Council of RAIPON chaired by President Grigory Ledkov. The main item on the agenda was the approval by the members of the Council of the First Vice-President of the Association. The first Vice-President appointed is therefore Pavel Sulyandziga. He will coordinate common issues and international cooperation. At the same meeting have been appointed the first Vice-Presidents by federal districts:

On March 29, at the 7^th Congress of the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East has been elected as the new President of the Association, Grigory Petrovich Ledkov, member of the Russian State Duma in the Committee on National Affairs.

Lawmakers, ministers and representatives of 40 ethnic groups from the far north, Far East and Siberia said Tuesday that the state should change its approach to save Russia's ethnic minorities, some of which number less than 300 people.