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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…

On November 20, World Children’s Day is celebrated – as anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989). The UN documents and mechanisms are…

One of the most noticeable trends in legislative thought in the summer and fall of this year concerns various prohibitions on propaganda. Russian parliamentarians are passionately discussing what kind of “propaganda” they should ban: Article 280 of the Criminal Code…