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Indigenous Siberian
Siberia is a vast region spanning the North Asia, northern part of the Asian continent and forming the Asiatic portion of Russia. As a result of the Russian conquest of Siberia (16th to 19th centuries) and of the subsequent Special settlements in the Soviet Union, population movements during the Soviet era (1917–1991), the modern-day demographics of Siberia is dominated by Russians, ethnic Russians (Siberians, Siberiaks) and other Slavs. However, there remains a slowly increasing number of Indigenous peoples, Indigenous groups, accounting for about 5% of the total Siberian population (about 1.6–1.8 million), some of which are closely genetically related to Indigenous peoples of the Americas. History In Kamchatka Peninsula, Kamchatka, the Itelmens' uprisings against Russian rule in 1706, 1731, and 1741, were crushed. During the first uprising the Itelmen were armed with only stone weapons, but in later uprisings they used gunpowder weapons. The Russian Cossacks faced tougher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal State Statistics Service (Russia)
The Federal State Statistics Service (, abbreviated as Rosstat) is the List of national and international statistical services, governmental statistics agency in Russia. Since 2017, it is again part of the Ministry of Economic Development (Russia), Ministry of Economic Development, having switched several times in the previous decades between that ministry and being directly controlled by the federal government. History Soviet era Goskomstat (, or, in English, the ''State Committee for Statistics'') was the centralised agency dealing with statistics in the Soviet Union. Goskomstat was created in 1987 to replace the Central Statistical Directorate, while maintaining the same basic functions in the collection, analysis, publication and distribution of state statistics, including economic, social and population statistics. This renaming amounted to a formal demotion of the status of the agency. In addition to overseeing the collection and evaluation of state statistics, Goskomsta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
