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The State Duma finally passed a shameful bill on the non-admission of non-citizen children to school if they do not have proof of the Russian language competence and the legality of their stay in the Russian Federation. This is presumably…

Russia is preparing for the “main autumn holiday” (as it is called on official websites and in the media), which has been held already for 20 years under the name of the Day of National Unity, November 4. Few people…

The 9th of August, the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, was established by the UN General Assembly: on this day, in 1982, the first meeting of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations took place – at that time…

Oleg Orlov is sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for an anti-war publication in which he called the current Russian regime fascism. Culturologists add the prefix “schizo-” to this word, meaning that this sort of fascism pretends to be “anti-fascism”…

It’s not for nothing that a lively military song goes, “Our wives – rifles loaded” – true wives of soldiers, like mothers and sisters, do not always bring joy to the warring countries. In the same song, to the question…

International Migrants Day is celebrated in December. A few days before it, on December 4, members of the [Russian] Human Rights Council (HRC) spoke about migrants’ rights, expressing their concern that the “flow of migrants creates well-known problems, in particular, the…