Theme: discrimination

Oleg Orlov is sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for an anti-war publication in which he called the current Russian regime fascism. Culturologists add the prefix “schizo-” to this word, meaning that this sort of fascism pretends to be “anti-fascism”…

International Migrants Day is celebrated in December. A few days before it, on December 4, members of the [Russian] Human Rights Council (HRC) spoke about migrants’ rights, expressing their concern that the “flow of migrants creates well-known problems, in particular, the…

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…