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More Than 50 Crimean Tatars Detained In Russia-Annexed Crimea

b1) One of the most oppressed ethnic groups in Russia are Crimean Tatars due to their disagreement with annexation of Crimea. They are being labeled as terrorists, and in fact, all Muslims of Russia are commonly labeled as terrorists and jailed or executed

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More than 50 Crimean Tatars have been detained by the Russian intelligence service in Ukraine’s Russia-controlled Crimea region, Ukrainian officials said on September 4.

Ainu in Russia - Wikipedia

c1) When Soivets captured Kurils they deported all population to Japan, which included not just Japanese but indigenous Ainu population. Those who managed to remain are not officially recognized, and not even listed in the census despite their objections.

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‘This isn't the Donbas’ A kickboxing world champion becomes governor, a former Ukrainian separatist...

d1) Governors of regions and many mayors in Russia are no longer elected. The federal government has no issues with putting the ex-head of "Donetsk People's Republic" as the mayor of Elista, the capital of Kalmykia. Colonial general-governor much?

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In late September, protests broke out in Elista, the capital of Russia’s Republic of Kalmykia. Elista’s residents were angry that Dmitry Trapeznikov, who formerly led the self-declared Donetsk...

Perspective | Trump keeps pushing anti-Semitic stereotypes. But he thinks he’s praising Jews.

e1) Putin's approach to Jews is similar to what Trump did. Putin uses easily controlled, religious, fearful and thus apolitical Jewish communities as a model minority to push his narrative. Others are being used as "model minorities" too.

washingtonpost.com

Philo-Semitism seems benevolent, but it can easily spur hatred of Jews.

Senior Hamas leaders meet Russia official in Moscow

f1) Putin also uses Jews as a way to reach out to Israel, and via Israel, to the "west". At the same time, the govt. of Russia befriended hamas or hezbollah, invites them to Moscow. There is Putin street in Bethlehem and Kadyrov street in East Jerusalem.

middleeastmonitor.com

Senior Hamas leaders have met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister and Presidential Special Envoy for the Middle East and Africa Mikhail Bogdanov to discuss political developments, Hamas disclosed...

Disappearing books: How Russia is shuttering its Ukrainian library

g1) The head of Ukrainian Literature Library in Moscow was found guilty of "extremism" and "embezzlement". Then the library was permanently shut down. Some books were reportedly sent to the library of foreign literature, but some destroyed and thrown away.

reuters.com

First, armed police seized some of its books. Next, its director was put on trial accused of stirring up ethnic hatred. And now, quietly, its shelves have been emptied and its volumes packed up,...

В России нет проблемы расовой дискриминации, считает Медведев

i1) Jewish Museum in Moscow (which Putin opened) has a narrative that "everything is great now". It's a common thing, "maybe it was bad in the past, but not now". Ex prime minister Medvedev said last year "it's been 100 years without racism in Russia".

ria.ru

Зампред Совбеза РФ Дмитрий Медведев заявил, что в России на протяжении 100 лет никаких проблем с расовой дискриминацией не существует. РИА Новости, 28.04.2021

Moscow leaves Tatarstan speechless

j1) One of the main topics that are being brought up re. Ukraine are language schools. Yet Russia recently made classes in native languages voluntary, meaning that the majority of ethnic Russians in e.g. Tatarstan won't care learning Tatar.

opendemocracy.net

The recent demotion of the status of the Tatar language is one of a growing number of moves made by Moscow against the wealthy and autonomously-minded republic of Tatarstan. RU, Татарча

k1) Kids of dispersed ethnicities, Koreans, Assyrians, Armenians, Germans, Jews, are lucky if they even have an option to learn their language as a foreign language in school. Koreans, Germans, Jews are the groups most keen to flee today's Russia.

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Koryo-saram - Wikipedia

Jewish Autonomous Oblast - Wikipedia

l1) Jewish Autonomous Region in an inhospitable area of the Far East is the only place where some schools offer voluntary Yiddish (no Hebrew) classes, but there are barely any Jews there, it was a ghetto (but fortunately deportations never came).

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m1) Republic of Karelia of Russia, peculiarly, does not have Karelian officially recognized as a regional language. There are no decent reasons as to why. Perhaps the govt. fears of "separatism" or dislikes that Karelian uses Latin as opposed to Cyrillic. nazaccent.ru/content/33935-

n1) Speaking of "separatism", by law, people who question e.g. the legal status of Crimea, or Kurils can get up to 5 yr. in prison. Yet e.g. the head of "Yes, California" independence movement lives in Moscow. He's been featured in this hilarious clip.

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Кто американца привел? Американец? Свободен!

o1) The govt. of Russia, in their Sochi-2014 ad listed as "achievements of Russia" Sikorsky's Helicopter (Sikorsky had to flee to the US), Nabokov (raised in the US), and Marc Chagall (Jewish-Belarusian artist who had to flee Soviets and lived in France)

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Epic Cyrillic / Russian Alphabet / Русская азбука

Cyrillic alphabet was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire to write the Old Church Slavonic language. The modern Cyrillic script is still used primarily f...

Putin Foe Navalny Urges Europe to Target Billionaires Abramovich, Usmanov

p1) Existence of such people as Arkady Rotenberg, Alisher Usmanov, German Gref, Margarita Simonyan is sometimes used to show how there are non-ethnic Russians connected to the govt thus everything is great, but they are precisely the "king's minorities"

bloomberg.com

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, who survived an assassination attempt in August that he blamed on the Kremlin, called on the European Union to impose sanctions on billionaire oligarchs...

The list can go on and on, it is still even remotely non-exhaustive. In the end, I'd like to remind of this statement from earlier in the thread:

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Mikhail Vokabre

@Vokabre

· Feb 20

The world hears about ethnic nationalism in Ukraine precisely because it is a mostly free country, with free press, freedom of expression. The world doesn't, or barely hears about what's going on in Russia, because it is unfree, and the govt. wants to keep the "facade" running.

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Mikhail Vokabre

@Vokabre

· Feb 13

#standwithukraine

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It's been reported that the equipment of invading military of Russia has nazi runes. Similar runes incl. the same "odal" rune popular with neo-nazis of Russia were previously found on equipment of vagner militants in Libya.

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THEY/THEMARS

#NotOurTsar

@Mortis_Banned

· Feb 23

So apparently some Russian soldier got creative while painting his TOS-1A thermobaric MLRS with limewash for winter camo and scribbled on some runes popular with neo-nazis So per Western authoritarian "anti-fascist" left logic, the US would be ok to invade and occupy Russia? twitter.com/markito0171/st…

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Feb 25

Participants of Feb 24 anti-war march in St. Petersburg at Gostiny Dvor reported being attacked and pepper sprayed by neo-nazis. "I was pepper sprayed, fortunately, not to the eyes, but the face burns. My friend has glasses broken and lips bloodied".

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Лодгед не против

@sshbrd

· Feb 24

друзья на нас напали ебанные нацики я в порядке, мне немного зарядило перцем но к счастью абсолютно не по глазам. лицо чуть горит. другу сломали очки и разбили губу. но в целом мы за себя достойно постояли

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Apr 4

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Mikhail Vokabre

@Vokabre

· Apr 4

Photo from VK account of a friend of a Russian occupier whose phone was found in Bucha and whose instagram account was reported by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Reportedly they are from 64th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade, Khabarovsk region. twitter.com/kromark/status…

Apr 18

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Michael Colborne

@ColborneMichael

· Apr 17

In eastern Ukraine, presumably: a Russian musician from an openly neo-Nazi band (Russkiy Styag - the logo and a selected song lyric about "the word pogrom", in Russian, should tell you what you need to know) visits a Russian neo-Nazi military unit (Rusich) twitter.com/Jack_Mrgln/sta…

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Apr 22

Messages left by the occupiers in the village of Kropivne. “Glory to kin/clan/race”, a double swastika and a koloworot, a common neonazi neopagan symbol. twitter.com/ua_industrial/

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