Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences: Peculiarities of Legal Regulation of Socio-Cultural Development of Native Small-Numbered Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East under the Conditions of Global Transformations

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Peculiarities of Legal Regulation of Socio-Cultural Development of Native Small-Numbered Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East under the Conditions of Global Transformations

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Issue: Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2011 4 (5)
Authors: Luzan, Vladimir S.
Contact information: Luzan, Vladimir S. : Siberian Federal University , 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041 Russia , e-mail:
Keywords: native peoples; socio-cultural development; legislation; primordial living environment; full powers
Abstract: Under the conditions of growing global transformations, steady socio-cultural development of native small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East of the Russian Federation cannot be attained without strengthening of their social-economical potential, without preservation of their original life environment, traditional way of living and cultural values. Achievement of all these recollected factors is possible only if there is a focused support from the part of the state and if the nations themselves mobilize their inner resources. In connection with all these, consideration of peculiarities of legal regulation in the sphere of protection of rights and of traditional way of life of the native small-numbered peoples is especially topical. In the given article we presume that the main stages of becoming of relations between the state and the native small-numbered nations of the Russian Federation correspond to international tendencies, though they differ significantly from them in timing. Besides, we are sure that as a state, the Russian Federation only starts forming its partnership relations with participants of the small-numbered nations. The author of the article believes that we need a more precise definition and delineation of full powers of the federal, regional and local organs of power, which will help to avoid duplication of full powers, will set responsibilities of each level of power realization for provision of a legal status of the native small-numbered nations. Today, we observe that formal approach to full powers delineation takes place in the federal legislation, and it does not contribute to the formation of a necessary system of protection of the native small-numbered nations' rights. The mentioned approach is supposed to provide for avoiding of solution of vitally important problems of the given nations' originality preservation on the regional level, as far as federal subjects variously interpret the volume of their full powers in the given sphere, proceeding from that, what is allowed by the federal legislation. Finally, we come to a conclusion that the legal base of the Russian Federation subjects, on which territories the native small-numbered nations live, differ significantly as in its number of normative legal acts, directed to organization and provision of protection of the native small-numbered nations' primordial living environment and of their traditional way of living, so in the content of those rights, which are given to the native small-numbered peoples. And all this leads to significant, and not always justified differences in establishment of the legal status of the native small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Pages: 678-687
Paper at repository of SibFU: https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/2359

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