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He forges his decrees like horseshoes — some get it in the groin, some in the forehead. Some in the brows, some in the eyes. Osip Mandelstam The words of Osip Mandelstam about the actions of the “soul-killer and peasant-slayer”…

Russia marked another Day of National Unity in a situation that journalist Olesya Gerasimenko described as a “civil war in a cold phase”: society is divided, opponents of the war have either been repressed or forced into exile, and those…

26 September marks European Day of Languages. In many countries, not only in Europe, various events are held to promote and support linguistic diversity: quizzes and competitions, introductory lessons in different languages, mock tests, theatre performances, round tables, and so…

As part of a project to protect the rights of Indigenous peoples, an interesting online conversation took place between experts and activists. At the webinar, various legal definitions of the term “Indigenous peoples” were discussed. Definitions in different international instruments…

A Russian–Azerbaijani scandal is in full scale, sparked by the brutal detention and torture of ethnic Azerbaijanis in Yekaterinburg, which resulted in the deaths of two of them and severe beatings of others. Random Russian citizens, harshly detained in Azerbaijan,…

Protection of the rights of groups that are called “vulnerable to discrimination” in the language of modern international law is reminded about on certain dates, many of them in spring. Discrimination against women is discussed rather in March, the topic…