In recent days, newsfeeds have been flooded with headline-grabbing reports from the village of Chemodanovka, the site of a conflict between “residents” and “gypsies,” as this event is portrayed in the media. An all-out brawl, whose details and causes are…
In mid-May, human rights defenders again came out “in support of the new generation” of young people subjected to repressions for their political activism. The anti-fascists in the Network Case and the young people from New Greatness being prosecuted are…
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…
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