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Migrant workers have always been a convenient instrument of manipulation. When society is in an uproar, particularly after a crime has been committed by a foreigner, officials take their cue from nationalists and assign collective responsibility to all migrants without…

I don’t know if there’s any other holiday celebrated by millions of people that combines so many seemingly incongruous ideas and meanings as March 8. As we know, it all started with female revolutionaries, socialists, and suffragists prepared for radical…

In January, anti-fascists are remembered in Russia as marches are held in memory of Anastasia Baburova and Stanislav Markelov, who were killed in 2009. Only the Moscow march was approved; in Saint Petersburg, anti-fascists have been remembered for years without…

On the day of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, representatives of the governments of 150 countries gathered at a conference to support the adoption of a new global compact intended to help the world solve one of…

The Russian Roma, like many residents of our country despairing of their inescapable situations and decades-old problems, are prone to put their hopes on their president. From a psychological standpoint, it is easier to think that the person on whom…

The Nobel Peace Prize this year will be awarded to Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege. On December 10, 2018 they will deliver speeches that are certainly worth listening to for everybody. Everybody, including those who did not listen before, did…