The Moscow Times: As the events in Dagestan have shown, the latest escalation in the decades-long Israel-Palestine conflict has brought to the surface the many frustrations harbored by members of Russia’s Muslim communities. This now risks exacerbating existing inter-ethnic tensions…
Theme: xenophobia
LaCroix: …Les préjugés racistes à l’égard des Africains, mais également des habitants du Caucase et des anciennes républiques soviétiques d’Asie centrale, ont en effet été pointés à de nombreuses reprises par les études. Les sondages du centre Levada montrent qu’une…
New Ethics, Same Old Reality
The results of two different sociological studies on racism and the “national question” were published recently. One of the studies was a traditional survey conducted by the Levada Center, which has researched the level of xenophobia in the Russian Federation…
For the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, xenophobia and related intolerance The outbreak of Covid-19 has caused raise of xenophobia around the globe, including Russia. In Russia, during the first phase of the pandemic, the group the most…
States should take action against COVID-19-related expressions of xenophobia, says UN expert
GENEVA (23 March 2020) – Governments must ensure that their response to the COVID-19 pandemic does not contribute to xenophobia and racial discrimination, and must eradicate xenophobia throughout all State policy and messaging, said E. Tendayi Achiume, UN Special Rapporteur on…
On May 30, 2019, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Khakassia granted the appeal of the Ust-Abakan town administration against the earlier ruling of the Ust-Abakan district court and ordered the residents of a Roma settlement to demolish within…