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This Federal Law guarantees the traditional rights of sparsely distributed indigenous peoples to protect their natural habitats, traditional ways of life, economic activities and fishing and hunting rights. An ethnic community with fewer than 50,000 persons living on ancestral land and maintaining traditional ways of life and community management shall be considered a sparsely distributed indigenous peoples. The Government shall validate a common national register of these indigenous communities, and federal executive bodies shall implement federal and regional programmes to protect their traditional rights regarding land tenure, traditional community management of natural resources, and land surveys and monitoring.
Amended by: Federal Law No. 40-FZ amending Federal Law No. 82-FZ on ensuring traditional rights of sparsely distributed indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation. (2009-04-05)
Amended by: Federal Law No. 256-FZ amending Federal Law No. 82-FZ on ensuring traditional rights of sparsely distributed indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation. (2015-07-13)
