{"id":36316,"date":"2025-08-05T17:37:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T14:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/?p=36316"},"modified":"2025-08-18T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:24:24","slug":"non-russians-and-transhumanists-against-global-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/articles\/columns\/non-russians-and-transhumanists-against-global-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Russians and Transhumanists Against Global Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of a project to protect the rights of Indigenous peoples, an interesting online conversation took place between experts and activists. At the <\/span>webinar<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span>, various legal definitions of the term \u201cIndigenous peoples\u201d were discussed. Definitions in different international instruments (primarily the UN documents) and national laws may vary, but overall, it seems important not to abandon a universal human rights approach to this issue. This approach means recognizing the rights of Indigenous peoples to traditional use of natural resources, preservation of their way of life, protection of their habitat, and a special principle known as \u201cFree, Prior and Informed Consent\u201d \u2014 <\/span>FPIC<\/span><\/a><\/u><\/span> for short.<\/span><\/p>\n

FPIC means \u201cthe ability to say \u2018yes\u2019 or \u2018no\u2019 to any action or proposal that affects the territory or the community\u2019s rights to that territory, and that decisions affecting their territory must be agreed with the community and allow enough time to reach consensus within the community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

During the discussion among the webinar participants, from those representing peoples living within the current borders of the Russian Federation, the opinion was voiced that perhaps the terminology should be changed for a relatively new concept of the \u201cglobal majority.\u201d This term began to be promoted over the last couple of decades as an alternative to paternalistic, in the view of the concept\u2019s authors, definitions \u2014 such as \u201cvisible minorities,\u201d racial classifications by skin color, or listing categories (Africans, Asians, ethnic minorities, and Indigenous peoples). Instead of being considered a minority, for instance, in Britain (where the idea of the \u201cglobal majority\u201d originated), it was proposed to declare Europeans and their descendants in various countries as the \u201cglobal minority\u201d \u2014 while those originating from the Global South as the majority, which of course matches global population statistics.<\/span><\/p>\n

The difficulty in switching to this proud terminology is that the rights of people who for centuries have suffered discrimination, colonization, exploitation, and oppression are now protected by minority and Indigenous peoples\u2019 laws; giving up minority status could result in losing legal protection.<\/p>\n

Another aspect of the problem is obvious to those looking at the situation not from the South \u2014 but, for example, from the Arctic, where many things appear differently. There is also the question of whether peoples who have always lived in Europe would be considered \u201cEuropeans\u201d (for example, Finno-Ugric peoples who see themselves as Indigenous to Northern Europe but cannot claim majority status at any scale). <\/span><\/p>\n

However, while anti-racist scholars pondered the nuances of definitions for protected groups, the idea of the \u201cglobal majority\u201d was hijacked by Kremlin propagandists, who now insist in every possible way that this \u201cglobal majority\u201d are allies of the Russian Federation and of Putin personally in the struggle against the West (i.e., the \u201cglobal minority\u201d). In the crazy worldview of all these Dugins, Slutskys, and others, European countries are the bastion of precisely anti-racism that rejects \u201ccollective identity \u2014 ethnic, religious, national, gender \u2014 and even belonging to the human species, as reflected in the program of transhumanists and supporters of deep ecology\u201d (Dugin, 2025). The opposition to them, according to Dugin, are formed by Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea \u2014 apparently together building the \u201cglobal majority\u201d, in the Russian interpretation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The distinguishing feature of the \u201cglobal minority,\u201d as understood by Russia\u2019s Foreign Ministry, is \u201cRussophobia\u201d \u2014 something deeply hostile, which is sounded in the speeches of foreign politicians (many examples are collected by the Ministry on a special section of its website). At the same time, there is no definition of Russophobia, which State Duma deputy Yarovaya even called \u201ca challenge and a question for science as well,\u201d while nevertheless urging to \u201cestablish separate criminal liability for Russophobia\u201d (this was said even before Maria Zakharova proposed establishing an \u201cInternational Day Against Russophobia\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

In general, Kremlin ideologues are either completely incapable of answering their own \u201cquestions and challenges,\u201d or cannot invent anything new (instead of stealing someone else\u2019s concept and turning its meaning completely upside down), thus reading their statements is often very funny. For example, Dugin in his latest speech admits: \u201cRussia must become itself. The question \u2018What is that?\u2019 is not so easy to answer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A bit earlier, he was stumped for another reason: \u201cIn Ukraine, we are not fighting Ukrainians, not the US, and not even the collective West, which is collapsing before our eyes. The nature of our enemy is different. We just have to figure out what exactly it is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

All these statements and intellectual wanderings smell of such deep-seated phobias that it\u2019s probably better to stay away from the definitions of peoples so beloved by this crowd (and it even makes one not want to belong to the \u2018human species\u2019 together with them \u2014 though it\u2019s unclear what alternative the transhumanists here might offer).<\/span><\/p>\n

In the Russian context, the self-identification as \u201cnon-Russian peoples\u201d is interesting; it is often used instead of the terms \u201cIndigenous\u201d and \u201cminorities\u201d which are not-for-all acceptable. People who identify themselves this way directly oppose the insane policies of the authorities and the imposed chauvinistic identity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stefania <\/span><\/em>KULAEVA<\/em>
\nFirst published on the blog of Radio Svoboda<\/a> (in Russian)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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