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Russia, Chechnya, Grozny, 18 April 2015 Young women in Chechnya await the arrival of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov at a folk festival near the town of Shali.

Chechen girls, Russia, by Yuri Kozyrev

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Russia, Explained: Siberian Indigenous Population Halves Amid Suicide Epidemic

By Aliide Naylor

April 8, 2021

A suicide epidemic is ravaging indigenous nations in Siberia.

A suicide epidemic is ravaging indigenous nations in Siberia. The Uralic Nganasan community in Siberia’s northern reaches is disappearing at a shocking rate – just three decades ago, there were some 1,300. Now, there are only around 700.

In the Nganasan settlement of Ust-Avam in Krasnoyarsk Krai, there are more suicides than natural deaths. “Six people die here every year. One of these deaths is the result of natural causes. Two or three freeze or die drunk. And two or three kill themselves,” writeNovaya Gazeta special correspondents Elena Kostyuchenko and Yuri Kozyrev after visiting the region.

The community is suffering the devastating effects of global warming, man-made environmental degradation, and severe poverty fuel depression. Out of 359 residents, just 54 have jobs.

“People crack, young people in general break down. The suicide rate is higher among young people. There is no work, nothing. Here you need to pay for lighting, and need to work for food. There is no food, no work, no money,” one young resident says. Her sister also committed suicide, leaving behind an 11-year-old son.

It’s often necessary to rely on anecdotal evidence about indigenous issues. Media reports are sparse and obtaining concrete statistical evidence about indigenous tribes such as the Nganasan is tough. And some deaths may be portrayed as suicides when there is little public information about the facts (for example, the death of one 15-year-old girl, in an uncomfortably termed “relationship” with a 24-year-old adult male police officer wasstyled in 2004 as a Romeo and Juliet story by local press).

The Nganasan are the descendants of semi-nomadic reindeer hunters, with ancient roots and a shamanistic spiritual culture. Even under Peter the Great (in the 17th and 18th centuries) there was a drive to “civilize” Russians in the further-flung regions and catch up with Europe, writes historian Yuri Slezkine. Peter instructed missionaries to find native Siberians and their “seductive false gods-idols and burn them with fire … and destroy their heathen temples”. Such ideas gained greater momentum in the 20th century, and the indigenous people were later forced into reservations under the Soviets in the 1930s. Nomadic civilizations were considered fundamentally incompatible with government-sanctioned lifestyles and these “small nations” of the North were seen as somehow representative of an undesirable past.

The Soviet state collectivized their personal property, including tents, guns and traps, and even reindeer herds. This led to a complete loss of reindeer husbandry and resulted in a steep decline in the reindeer population from the 1950s onwards.

Meanwhile, Soviet enforcement of Russian literacy made the local language almost extinct. Much like practices imposed on indigenous communities in other parts of the world, the Kremlin would take away local kids from their parents and send them to study in boarding schools.

“There, speaking Nganasan was forbidden, and teachers punished them for every Nganasan word they used — beaten with canes, kicked out of the class,” said local linguist Valentin Gusev. Today, Russia is home to 260,000 people from indigenous communities – who constitute just 0.2% of the country’s population. The government officially recognizes 40 separate indigenous groups in the North, Siberia, and the Far East.

The catastrophic impact of climate change in the Russian Arctic limits the Nganasan’s fishing opportunities — their primary food source. Meanwhile, the government continues to restrict hunting, which is a widespread source of tension between the Kremlin and indigenous communities elsewhere across Russia. With a de factoban on hunting, the Nganasans stopped following the routes of wild herds. Local food available for purchase can be out of date or moldy, and chronic alcohol use continues to plague the population.

Aggressive industrial development in the Russian Arctic has massively exacerbated the crisis among the Nganasan. Last year, a Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) diesel spillbecame the largest human-made fuel spill in Arctic history, after which Russia’s government colludedwith the company (which is the nation’s largest nickel producer) to whitewash the disaster. The spill affected the environment that provided the Nganasan with basic food supplies. “They catch fish; they hunt deer. But there are no fish this year. And the deer left for other lands three years ago,” Kostyuchenko and Kozyrev wrote.

Last year, northern indigenous tribes signed an open letterto US business magnate Elon Musk and Tesla asking him not to purchase any nickel, copper, and other materials from Nornickel in the wake of the disaster. On average, the Norilsk Mining and Metallurgical Combine plant has released 30 tons of metallic dust and heavy metal oxides annually since it began production in the late 1930s, according toresearcher Konstantin B. Klokov.

There has been a recent spikemore generally in tensions between federal authorities and indigenous communities. Some of these nations have mobilized against an over-centralized state, government-backed environmental assaults on their sacred lands, and have demanded the return of their autonomy. In Kalmykia, for example, the majority-Buddhist region has engaged in protests against a Kremlin-appointed mayor. In Buryatia, locals rallied against a rigged election for weeks. And in a case that sent waves across Russia, a Sámi activist filed a complaint with Russia’s Supreme Court last year, after the government denied him the right to hunt without a license.

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A Chechen girl dances while wearing a shirt showing a portrait of Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed leader of Chechnya, in the town of Gudermes, Chechnya, May 2010.

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MURMNASK, RUSSIA. September 2019. Yuri Kozyrev.

Boys at the Nakhimov Naval School in Murmansk, Russia. [x]

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Photo Exhibit: 'Arctic: New Frontier' - Kadir van Lohuizen and Yuri Kozyrev

Photo Exhibit: ‘Arctic: New Frontier’ – Kadir van Lohuizen and Yuri Kozyrev

Cape Kamenny, Yamal Peninsula, Russia, May 2018. © Yuri Kozyrev – NOOR for Fondation Carmignac

15 March 2019 | Danny McCance | Living it – EuroNews

Last year, and for the first time, two photojournalists – the award-winning Kadir van Lohuizen and Yuri Kozyrev – were awarded the 9th edition of the prestigious Carmignac Photojournalism Award, dedicated to the Arctic.

What followed was a five-month…

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A Kurdish farmer and his niece prepare a field for spring planting in the mountains near the Iranian border. 2019.

PHOTOGRAPH BY YURI KOZYREV, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION

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A Worker paddles a Boat beside a former Nickel Factory in Norilsk, Russia image credit: Yuri Kozyrev/Noor for the Carmignac Foundation

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CARMIGNAC PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARD. Londra, 5 maggio 2019. Che avrei risentito parlare della Fondation Carmignac, visitata in un piovoso pomeriggio del luglio scorso sull’isola di Porquerolles, ne ero sicuro, non pensavo però di imbattermi, qui a Londra nella prestigiosa Saatchi Gallery, nelle opere dei vincitori del premio di fotogiornalismo, creato da Edouard Carmignac nel 2009 e che incorona il miglior lavoro fotografico dell’anno nell’ ambito della denuncia delle violazioni dei diritti umani e problemi ambientali e di quelli generati dai conflitti geopolitici. Sarebbe stato da miopi non accorgersi che, come nell’arte, anche nella fotografia, le sorti del pianeta, dei suoi conflitti e delle sue discriminazioni, siano motivo di grande attenzione. Il premio, quest’anno, è andato al lavoro di due fotografi, il russo Yuri Kozyrev e l’olandese Kadir Von Louhizen dal titolo “Artic: New Frontier” che hanno esplorato le terre artiche, dalla Russia, all’Alaska, dall’Islanda al Canada, documentando, come il circolo polare artico non sia più quella terra immacolata ed integra che spesso il nostro immaginario dipinge. Speculazioni, commerci, distruzione, inquinamento ne hanno violato da tempo la verginità. Forse l’ultimo o uno degli ultimi luoghi incontaminati del mondo, è stato definitivamente sfregiato a causa di grandi interessi, ma anche di intenti miserabili (come la caccia all’orso polare o le gare di motoslitte). Le fotografie dei due grandi reporter hanno il fascino dell’orrido e sono di una drammaticità che solo la grande pittura del XVII e XVIII secolo avevano saputo rendere. A completare l’impressionante galleria fotografica, ecco “Everything Must Go”, installazione del 2014 di Jean-François Boclé, formata da 97.000 sacchetti blu di polythylene. Il sacchetto di plastica è diventato la peste del XXI secolo, una mostruosa creatura sintetica che sembra essere la silente testimone del nostro sciagurato agire.

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Ucrania ordena la evacuación de la zona de exclusión de Chernóbil, puerta de entrada a Kiev

Ucrania ordena la evacuación de la zona de exclusión de Chernóbil, puerta de entrada a Kiev

Separatistas prorrusos también anuncian la evacuación de civiles en las autoproclamadas Repúblicas Populares de Donetsk y Lugansk hacia Rusia. Zona de exclusión de Chernóbil. YURI KOZYREV EUROPA PRESS La Agencia Estatal Ucraniana para la Gestión de la Zona de Exclusión de Chernóbil anunció este sábado la evacuación forzosa de dicha zona, situada en la frontera con Bielorrusia y en el camino más…

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please forgive kozyrev for his bias🥺 it’s hard to be objective about somebody you used to fuck🐚 no, yuri didn’t have sex with tyoma youtu. be/ZEdhuEVMXSQ

OMG! is that baby yuri? maybe he should have had sex with tyoma, he's kinda cute lol

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As the World Cup has progressed, a lot of glib boosterist nonsense has been said about how foreigners are treated in Russia. If you want to know the truth, you need to look how migrant workers and foreign students are treated. Photo by Yuri Kozyrev for the project Muscovites. Courtesy of Novaya Gazeta The New Serfs…