Daria Egereva was supposed to be in New York next week. The Indigenous Selkup climate advocate was expected to return to the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, where two years ago she spoke about how Indigenous peoples are confronting environmental degradation and climate change. Instead, this year she is in a Russian jail, facing up to 20 years in prison on terrorism charges. Egereva was arrested on December 17 along with Natalya Leongardt, another Russian advocate for Indigenous peoples, whose name was not released publicly until last week. Both face accusations of participating in a terrorist group due to their former involvement in the Aborigen Forum, an informal network of Indigenous advocates that was shut down by the Russian government two years ago. Experts say their detention is indicative of a growing repression of Indigenous advocacy in the Russian Federation, part of Russia’s broader shift to authoritarianism that has worsened since the country invaded Ukraine.…