According to press spokesman Vyacheslav Sidorin, the new programme will cover the period 2009-2015. It will be elaborated jointly by the regional Centre on Indigenous Peoples, the Murmansk regional administration, as well as several municipal administrations. The new programme will include new trends in Russian legislation and practical life, press spokesman Sidorin says to Regnum. According to the Russian 2002 census, there are a total of 1769 ethnic Sàmi people living in Murmansk Oblast. In addition there are about 1100 people of Komi origin, a groups of ethnic Nentsy.
