On February 3 the fourth session of the Diversity Research Laboratory was held on the topic 'The Plurinational State and Politics in Relation to Different Ethnocultural Groups: Discourses and Practices.' Sergei Sokolovsky, the chief researcher at the IEA RAS (Institute of Ethnology and Antropology, Russian Academy of Sciences), spoke about the legal peculiarities and contradictions of the status of indigenous peoples.
