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Transcript: Profile: Indigenous native peoples of Russia demanding more political rights
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- April 18, 2005
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ROBERT SIEGEL
All Things Considered (NPR)
04-18-2005
Profile: Indigenous native peoples of Russia demanding more political rights
Host: ROBERT SIEGEL
Time: 9:00-10:00 PM
ROBERT SIEGEL, host:
In Russia's Far East, on Sakhalin Island, native populations are getting involved in politics like never before. They're protesting big international oil companies; Shell and Exxon are among them. NPR's Lawrence Sheets reports.
LAWRENCE SHEETS reporting:
The hamlet of Vienni(ph) is a tiny cluster of about a dozen rundown houses perched on a hillside overlooking Nivkh Bay, which is covered with ice much of the year. The people here are ethnic Nivkhs, one of the tiny indigenous groups on Sakhalin ...
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