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The war against the importation of Moscow garbage in the Arkhangelsk region and the Komi Republic is heating up.

After seven years as leader of Russia’s most powerful Arctic region, Marina Kovtun is replaced by a 40-year old top official from Moscow.

The District Court of Lapland has acquitted all the defendants in the case that dealt with fishing in the river system of Tana.

Approximately 70 percent of Sámi film-makers are women, says Anne Lajla Utsi, the director of the International Sámi Film Institute in Sápmi, the Land of the Sámi. 

At the Utsjoki Court, five Sámi have been accused of fishing offences. They base their fishing on their right to practice Sámi culture – a right pursuant to the constitution of Finland.

According to a decision by the United Nations Human Rights Committee, Finland acted in an erroneous manner when the State accepted people into the electoral roll of the Sámi Parliament against the will of the Sámi Parliament.

45 percent of Russians believe their county is moving in a wrong direction, a new opinion poll by independent Levada Centre tells.

The Juha Sipilä administration has withdrawn draft legislation from the Finnish Parliament that would strengthen Sámi rights.

The scandalous Gayzer Case continues with testimonies of former Komi deputy Governor Chernov

Dan Eriksson, who is a proud gay Sámi today, knows what it is all about. He has lived most of his life in denial about his true self, and he had to go through years of mental ill-being and two suicide attempts before he found the courage to talk.

Sápmi, the Land of the Sámi, cannot offer all the young people the kind of schooling they are interested in. To follow their dreams, many have to move away from their home region.