The situation of the Roma people in Ukraine can be described as extremely difficult, and the war greatly exacerbated the problems that existed in peacetime. Conditions in many Roma settlements are unacceptable, and Roma face discrimination during the distribution of…
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Two Dungans convicted in the case of pogroms of Dungan villages in Kazakhstan are released
On August 15, 2022, two Dungans convicted in a high-profile case of pogroms in the Dungan villages of Masanchi, Bular Batyr and Aukhatty in the Kordai district of Kazakhstan (February 7-8, 2020) were released on parole. They spent more than…
More than 100 orphans from Ukraine were sent to Russian foster families by the Russian authorities
The children were taken out from the so-called “DPR” and “LPR” territories and from the territories occupied by the Russian troops after February 24. Paperwork and selection of foster families began in June, after Putin signed a decree on a…
Today, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow considered the demands of Karen Shainyan, a journalist and the most popular LGBTQ+ blogger in a Russian-language segment of YouTube. He requested to be removed from the register of “foreign agents”. On April…
On August 1, 2022, volunteers helping refugees from Ukraine at the Tesco Humanitarian Aid Center in Przemysl, a Polish city on the border with Ukraine, told ADC Memorial that when Ukrainian refugees board the Przemysl-Hannover humanitarian train, Roma are placed…
According to a journalistic investigation by MediaHub in July, the private military company (PMC) Wagner recruits citizens from Central Asian countries, including Kyrgyzstanis, for the war in Ukraine. It is reported that over the past few weeks, in Kyrgyz accounts…