The government of St. Petersburg has announced that the city‘s surveillance cameras will be set up to recognize ethnicity. The contract for the relevant services was signed by the Committee on Interethnic Relations. As Stefania Kulaeva, expert of ADC Memorial,…
Russia is preparing for the “main autumn holiday” (as it is called on official websites and in the media), which has been held already for 20 years under the name of the Day of National Unity, November 4. Few people…
The issue includes theses from the European Parliament debate ‘Opposing Russian Colonial Oppression: Voices of Different Peoples’; the Russian state’s usurpation of the ‘ethnic agenda’ and persecution in Bashkortostan; the difficult situation of minorities in Central Asia; the war-time reality…
RE:RUSSIA: Over the two years of the war, the situation surrounding the issue of the LGBTQ+ community in the post-Soviet space has seriously deteriorated. This deterioration is evident in Central Asian countries where ‘non-traditional relationships’ were already criminalised or semi-criminalised, as well as in countries like Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and Georgia,…
The leader of the initiative, an international coalition of LGBTQIA+ organizations, writes: “The world has just celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights — a document that is much more than a cornerstone of international law:…
EL PAÍS: El atentado de Moscú exacerba la persecución de las autoridades rusas a los inmigrantes Pese a necesitar trabajadores, algunas regiones prohíben a los extranjeros emplearse en comercios o llevar taxis. Cada día se producen redadas en mercados y…
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