Russia’s war is splitting the indigenous Sami in two
Border restrictions keep Scandinavian and Russian Sami apart
The sami are used to change. The indigenous people has been pushed north by settlers and pulled south by economics. They now number just 70,000, a small share of the population of the Sapmi, their ancestral homeland, which stretches across Scandinavia and the Kola peninsula. Now Russian aggression has split them in two.
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This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Reining in the reindeer”
Europe January 20th 2024
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