Russian organizations, both public and private, often impose discriminatory requirements on contractors, a new post from RFE/RL’s Russian investigative unit, Systema, highlights. Many official tender documents explicitly state that cleaning, security, and equipment installation must be handled exclusively by people…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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