Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Independent research & analysis
Alirpaq

Extractive Industry · Safety · Accountability · Indigenous Rights · Sustainability
About this platform

Safety and accountability only seem expensive if you aren't counting the full cost.

Extractive industries generate extraordinary profits — built, in part, on underpriced risk, underpaid labour, and communities that absorb consequences they did not choose.

Alirpaq tracks what that cost actually looks like: regulatory failures, consultation theatre, industrial disasters, and the gap between what companies report and what communities experience. For journalists, researchers, lawyers and policy people who need to understand systems — not just events. Because the argument that safety costs too much only works if you never ask who is paying.

Commentary All essays →
Aivana Enmynkau

FPIC Is Not a Procedure. It Is a Right.

Why the proceduralization of free, prior and informed consent is itself a form of its erosion.

June 2026 · 6 min · Read →
Aivana Enmynkau

Why Climate Policy Reproduces Colonialism

More than half of energy transition projects sit on or near Indigenous lands. The "green" future has a consent problem.

May 2026 · 5 min · Read →
Aivana Enmynkau

Language Death Begins Before the Last Speaker

The disappearance of a language starts long before there is no one left to speak it.

April 2026 · 4 min · Read →
Projects & Tools All →
Monitor · Telegram bot

KMNS-Monitor

A parser tracking regulatory acts (НПА) affecting Indigenous peoples of Russia — so you don't miss changes buried in government feeds. Delivered to Telegram.

Open in Telegram →
Platform · Data · Briefings

Tamaani

Structured data and analysis on Indigenous communities, land use, and extractive activity. Biweekly briefings in EN / RU for researchers and compliance teams.

tamaani.org →
Media · Voices · Memory

Kaighi

Oral histories, podcasts and traditions of Naukan and Chukotka. For people who want to feel, not just know.

Go to Kaighi →
Research & Publications All papers →
FPIC · Climate

Advisory Parliaments as Verification Organs, Not Consultation Organs

Why indigenous consultative bodies must function as verification organs rather than decorative participation.

Palladium Journal · May 2026 · PDF ↓
ESG · Disaster Risk

Black Ice Model: Predicting Industrial Disasters in Arctic Jurisdictions

Background Risk Index methodology validated against Norilsk 2020 and Listvyazhnaya.

ESG Francis · Dec 2025 · PDF ↓
Law · Russia

Order No. 217: When an Inherent Right Becomes an Administrative Benefit

How the new registry logic transforms Indigenous fishing rights into revocable privileges.

May 2026 · 6 min · Read →
Coal · China · BRI

Liushenyu Mine: 90 Dead and the Architecture of Silence

BRI analysis of 2026's largest coal disaster through the lens of ESG risk indicators.

March 2026 · 11 min · Read →
Our projects
Monitor · Telegram
KMNS-Monitor

A bot-parser that tracks НПА affecting Indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation. Catches regulatory changes before they disappear into the administrative record.

Open in Telegram →
Platform · Data
Tamaani

Independent briefings on extractive industries, FPIC and Indigenous rights — with focus on restricted-access jurisdictions where official sources omit the most important facts. Biweekly · EN / RU.

tamaani.org →
Media · Memory
Kaighi

Voices, histories and oral traditions of Naukan and Chukotka. Podcasts, stories and recipes — for people who want to feel, not just know.

Go to Kaighi →

Field Notes

Short dispatches on documents, events and observations — when something needs to be said before it becomes a longread. Biweekly, in English and Russian.