Ruslan Garipov holds a Chair of the Department of State and Law Disciplines at Tatar State Humanitarian and Pedagogical University in Kazan, Russia. His areas of interests are Human Rights, Self-Determination Rights, Democracy Development and Indigenous Peoples Rights Protection. He is a member of a number of non-profit organizations which include the Global Alliance for Justice Education (Nashville, Tennessee, USA) and the Russian Association of International Law (Moscow, Russia).
Prior to this Ruslan spent 6 months in the United States where he worked at the Kennan Institute of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, United Nations in NYC and visited American Indian reservations in the south-west. From March till September, 2007 he conducted research “International and domestic protection of indigenous peoples’ rights” as a Fulbright Scholar. Participation in exchange program allowed him a unique possibility to conduct research in the USA and granted a lot of new friends. Favorite children game in Indians turned to scientific research on the rights of indigenous peoples of the world.
This year, under financial support of Fulbright program, Ruslan Garipov published his monograph “Indigenous peoples’ rights protection in Russia and the US”. The author investigated questions of international legal regulation of indigenous peoples’ rights and problems of protection of the rights of North American Indians and native minorities of North, Siberia and the Far East of Russia. “The author does a detailed investigation of the US indigenous peoples’ rights on lands, resources, water rights, hunting, fishery, and gathering… The existence of their own territorial formations of American indigenous peoples helps them today in preserving their own traditions, cultures, and language, and promotes the development of self-determination of these unique peoples. The existence of their own territories inside United States of America is considered today, by American Indians, as a heritage left to them by their ancestors in order to keep their posterity alive and according to the traditions, customs, language, and culture.” The work is published in Russian with the summary in English. Number of the monograph copies is 500.
Ruslan Garipov has a PhD in International Law and published more than 70 scientific papers in Russia and abroad. As a result of his activity Ruslan was recognized as the best lecturer and scientist at the University in 2010. Next year Ruslan is going to Washington again as a finalist of the republican program Algarysh.