Pecularities of a foreign legislation regarding North

Author looks into the statutory regulation in the field of protecting rights and interests of indigenous peoples of the North. He investigates principles and content of the legal regulation of issues regarding the Sami people in Norway. For the purpose of the study, author analyses the official Norwegian policy approach to the institution of citizenship taking into account interests of ethnic minorities. The article contains author’s translation of Act No. 56 concerning the Sameting (the Sami Parliament), passed by the Norwegian Parliament on 12 June 1987, from English into Russian considering recent version in Norwegian.

Sami, the Sami people, the Sameting, Saami Parliament, indigenous peoples of the North, legal regulation in the field of indigenous, citizenship and ethnic minorities, Sami Act, Sami Law, Norway’s policy towards indigenous peoples, parliaments of the Arctic