Dmitry represents Itelmen indigenous people from the Russian Far East. Since the late 1990s, he has become a youth activist in the indigenous movement in Kamchatka. After graduating from the pedagogical university in 2000, he worked as a geography teacher in a school for several years. Later he worked in the indigenous peoples’ information center “Lach” in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and since 2004 as a vice-president of the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON). In 2011 because of harassment from the Russian security service FSB, he was forced to move to Norway, where he received political asylum. Today he works as the head of the Indigenous Russia information center.
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