The following is our monthly review of instances of xenophobia and radical nationalism, along with any government countermeasures, for February 2025.
The following is our monthly review of instances of xenophobia and radical nationalism, along with any government countermeasures, for January 2025.
This is an analytic review focused on the phenomenon, known as hate crimes – that is, on ordinary criminal offenses committed on the grounds of ethnic, religious or other similar enmity or prejudice.
See Alexander Verkhovsky's article on the ongoing anti-migrant campaign in Russia published on December 19, 2024, by Russia.Post. The author points out that fearmongering about labor migrants has become Russian officialdom’s default rhetoric. He argues that recent anti-migration efforts presage a transformation of the official ideology.
13 September 2024 Rights in Russia published a translation of Alexander Verkhovsky’s article from Novaya gazeta «The Metamorphoses of Post-Soviet Russian Nationalism: Less Violence, More Bonds. Resentment Is Inevitable».
SOVA Research Center took part in the 2024 OSCE Warsaw Human Dimension Conference. Here we publish our statement at the Plenary Session 8 "Tolerance and Non-Discrimination I" on October 8.
SOVA Center took part in the OSCE conference "ODIHR: three decades and ready for the future" in Warsaw on October 2023. See the SOVA's statement made for the session “Tolerance and Non-Discrimination I”.
Aleхander Verkhovsky explains how the Russian ultraright is faring amid the war, how government policy is changing toward them and also what problems the government’s anti-Ukraine propaganda is running into.
The original interview in Russian was made by Maria Litvinova and published in Republic. A shortened version with some changes has been approved by the author and republished in RussiaPost with Republic's permission.
