Since 2000, Rodion Sulyandziga served as the Director of the Centre for support of Indigenous Peoples of the North\Russian Indigenous Training Centre (CSIPN/RITC) with the Consultative status of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Rodion has served in several Boards as Chair and Board member including the Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples’ Secretariat (IPS), the Indigenous Peoples Global Coordination Group for the UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples 2014 and the Indigenous Peoples Global Steering Committee on climate change. From 2019 to 2022  he was a member of two UN bodies: Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP, Geneva) under the HRC and Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform on climate change under the UNFCCC (Bonn) representing the region of Eastern Europe, Russia, Central Asia and Transcaucasia.