EXPANDING THE RANGE OF REGULATORY AND LEGAL SUPPORT FOR THE CIRCUMPOLAR CIVILIZATION IN TERMS OF DEVELOPMENT ARCTIC ZONE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Russian legislation, which regulating the livelihoods of the peoples of the circumpolar civilization requires extensions and additions. Help representatives of the peoples of the circumpolar civilization is often carried out on the residual principle due to their small size and low degree of participation in social processes. Preserving the traditional way of life, economy and culture of the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East is possible only when the legal support of the federal state. However, in Russia there are many gaps in the ethnic legislation, despite the fact that in recent years adopted the basic documents on the development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation. To solve the problem requires a serious and joint work of the authorities and local government, business, the leading work on the development of subsurface resources, and public organizations. The foreign experience redress the peoples of the circumpolar civilization can find many examples of support both from the government and from large companies doing business in the polar latitudes. Only the modernization of ethnic legislation will eliminate gaps, inconsistencies and allow to include in the legal framework a number of modern trends of development of the Russian Arctic. In 2016 a number of amendments would be considered on the agenda of the State Commission for the development of the Arctic, the Russian Federation Council and the Coordination Council of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on the development of the Northern Territories and the Arctic. New regulations will contribute to the sustainable development of the Arctic and the improvement of quality of life. Special rights accruing to the indigenous peoples of the North, is not necessary to separate them from the other peoples living in Russia, and to a minimum to preserve their way of life.