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Lots of people are suddenly talking about “discrimination,” even though this word is not used readily in Russia, just like the closely-related concept of “minority rights.” Many still find it somehow unpatriotic to protect and defend minority rights and combat…

The EU-Russia Civil Society Forum released the Legal Dialogue Playbook, a publication devoted to new trends in public interest law and new approaches to human rights protection in Europe and Russia. The publication analyzed the implementation of the Paris Climate…

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has resulted in departure of labor migrants from Russia, the Russian labor market faced serious problems with labor personnel. The largest state and private enterprises, having lost the source of cheap labor, started incurring…

02.06.2021

Crimes and Identity

Is it possible to speak of one people’s guilt before another? Is it necessary? Is it correct? The 20th century saw the emergence of the concept of collective national guilt and the need for “atonement.” This concept was extremely important…

28.04.2021

Too personal data

The brother of Adi Rukun, who is featured in the documentary “The Look of Silence” (2014), was brutally killed in the 1960s while the hunt for communists and those who looked like communists was raging in Indonesia. Dictator Suharto came…

April 8 is International Roma Day. This year we want to draw attention to the problems of statelessness and personal documents, which remain pressing for the Roma population. We are publishing several typical stories about the plight of stateless Roma…