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The attitude towards disabled people and to disability is one of the most important indicators of the maturity of society and development of human rights. In the late seventies of the 20th century Europe comes to the historical stage, when attempts of integration of disabled people into normal public life, with full recognition of their civil rights, that fully coincide with the rights of citizens without disabilities, are made. Russia is now only on the way of transition to the fifth stage, when the biopsychosoci...

This paper presents the preliminary results of scientific survey on unique social phenomenon – the nomadic way of life of reindeer herders in Yakutia. Main trends of nomadic way of life’ changes in Yakutia were outlined on base of collected archival and published sources, statistical data and field materials. Firstly, the situation with conceptual approaches on nomadic way of life was analyzed. Authors recognize that from the very beginning of the Russian Arctic exploration the lifestyle of nomads was in the sp...

The term Paleo-Asiatic peoples (Paleoasiatic) was proposed by the Russian scientist L. I. Strencom in the middle of the 19th century to refer to a number of indigenous peoples of the North and North-East Siberia with the archaic features of culture, characteristic of the Neolithic stage of development. The basis for selection of these people in a special group was that their languages are not connected with large language families of Northern Asia. This is the reason that they are preserved in the place names of t...