In 2023, against the background of war, anti-migrant populism has firmly reemerged in Russian politics. Politicians and official figures are actively expressing anti-migrants’ views, and negative news about migrants has become a noticeable part of the media agenda. At the…
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Militarization of childhood as a state crime
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…
We publish a compilation of the speeches of the “Opposing Russian Colonial Oppression: Voices of Different Peoples” panelists. The event was hosted on the 25th of October in the European Parliament by MEP Rasa Juknevičienė in cooperation with the Anti-Discrimination…
Propagating Equality
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…
On July 27-30, 2023, the annual Márkomeannu Saami festival took place in the northern part of Norway. This year, the International Committee of Indigenous Peoples of Russia (ICIPR) in exile, with the support of ADC Memorial, held a seminar entitled…
Plus the Nazification of the whole country
The declared goals of Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine changed “in accordance with the current situation”, but at the same time they were of a “fundamental nature,” Vladimir Putin announced to the “voenkory” (military correspondents) astonished by this statement. From…