 My name is Vyasa Lavieva. I am a PhD researcher affiliated to Joshmetsu University and I'm here to talk about war in Ukraine and how the war impacted indigenous communities in Russia. There are a lot of indigenous people living in the Russian Federation. It's about probably 100, more than 100. Indigenous people, according to UN definitions, are supposed to live their traditional life. They have their own religion that differs from state organizations and they have to have their own language and many people, many ethnic groups in Russia, they have these activities. However, under Russian legislation, only people who live in the far north and far east region and whose population is under 50,000 are recognized as indigenous. Other ethnic group whose population is bigger than 50,000 and who live in the south or in the west part of Russia, they are not recognized as indigenous. And this is a biggest challenge in the Russian Federation because without recognition, indigenous people cannot effectively protect their rights. Women are the people who actually bring life to the world. And every woman, every mother, they wanted to have happiness to their children and peace around them. So why actually women protested because they really don't want to take children, to their husbands, to participate in the war and to be included? I think it's like it's very important to listen to women's words because they're like, if there will be a woman rights and more listened to women's words, there will be no war on the earth. And when I'm mother of two boys, like a hosier in it, I do this and I do that. And when I think what would happen if I would live there during that war, Russian-Ukrainian war, I really scared because they would be drafted. And from my bottom of my heart, I never wanted peace to all people. And I want that I wanted that any war on the earth will stop. I think it's like there will be, it's supposed to be a real working mechanism to stop the war. Like UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights, they're supposed to be be allowed to protect the indigenous people. And the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is supposed to be allowed to protect all people around the world.