Objectives: This study aims to determine the qualification of the statute of two indigenous peoples residing in Crimean peninsula (Crimean Karaites and Krymchaks) in conditions of current interstate conflict. Materials and Methods: Coherent analysis was made according to the common principles of law, norms of international human right law, to the provisions of Ukrainian and Russian legislation and to the present scientific publications devoted to the history and ethnic origin of Crimean Karaites and Krymchaks Results: Author proved the duty of Ukraine to finish the procedure of official recognizing the Krymchaks and Karaites as the indigenous peoples (with the procedure in analogy for parliamentary Statement on Crimean Tatar People's statute on March 20, 2014) and to adopt the Law on the Status of Indigenous Peoples fixing the prescriptions of the UN Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the principles of subsidiarity. Conclusion: collective political, economic, social and cultural rights of indigenous peoples must be defended despite any politic and military circumstances an situations of interstate conflict.
In this chapter the specific issues of legal statute and perspectives of the development of Indigenous Peoples in Ukraine are highlighted. The situation of occupation and attempt of annexation of the Crimean peninsula as the native land of three Indigenous Peoples (Crimean Karaites, Crimean Tatars, and Krymchaks) in conditions of the ongoing interstate conflict and internal displacement are determined. The aspects of recognition of the indigenous statute in Ukrainian, Russian, and international jurisdictions for those Indigenous People will be researched, as the reparations and reconciliations for such peoples as victims of international crimes of the Soviet times.
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