16.06.2025
Theme: discrimination
21.02.2025
Expert of ADC Memorial comments on the plans of the St. Petersburg authorities to detect ethnicity via special set up of facial recognition system 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,...
28.10.2024
The Prison of Peoples and the Day of Unity 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...
01.06.2024
Bulletin № 79, 2024. ANTI-DISCRIMINATION 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...
23.05.2024
RE:RUSSIA: Flagships of Homophobia: Discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community has become a key tool of authoritarian populism and the promotion of an anti-Western agenda in the post-Soviet space 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,...
16.05.2024