The UN promised to monitor the implementation of the law on the indigenous peoples of Ukraine

The law in question was signed by the President of Ukraine on July 21.

Its authors define the indigenous people of Ukraine and note that the indigenous peoples of the country are the Crimean Tatars, Karaites and Krymchaks.

Russians are not included in this list.

“We are studying this recently adopted law and will closely monitor how its provisions are being implemented in practice,” RIA Novosti quotes Haka, who was asked whether the UN believes that Ukrainian law meets democratic standards.

Haq noted that it is important that the law defining indigenous peoples "be in line with international human rights standards and serve to strengthen the rights of indigenous peoples in Ukraine."

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, called the adopted law openly discriminatory.

He emphasized that talking about Russians as a non-indigenous people in Ukraine is not just incorrect, it is ridiculous and stupid.

The State Duma adopted a statement condemning the non-inclusion of Russians in the list of indigenous peoples of Ukraine.

Moscow noted that the adoption of such "marginal laws" strengthens Ukraine in "nationalist and neo-Nazi positions."