Introducing a Registry of Indigenous Persons in Russia: Rationale and Challenges
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Abstract
Numerous Russian laws recognize rights of, and provide for benefits to, Indigenous peoples living within the Russian Federation. Yet in the past two decades, Indigenous persons have faced challenges in accessing these rights, having no way to prove that they are members of an Indigenous people. For almost two decades, Indigenous leaders have petitioned the Russian government to address this situation, and in January 2020, the Government of Russia passed a law to create a registry of Indigenous persons. Drawing on news coverage, scholarly discussion and interviews with Indigenous leaders and their allies in the Russian Federation, we describe the genesis of the problem, the interim measures various regions adopted to address the problem, and the unresolved challenges facing the implementation of this law. We recognize the registry as a problematic and contested legal site through which the state continues to delimit Indigeneity in ways that afford but also constrain rights.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it