Discrimination

Tag: Discrimination

Police ruling on undesirability of stand-up comic’s stay in Russia suspended

Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky District Court on Thursday suspended the Interior Ministry’s order designating the stay in Russia of stand-up comic Idrak Mirzalizade, who had been earlier placed in administrative detention for 10 days for insulting Russian people on account of ethnic descent.

12:48 16.09.2021

Stay of stand-up comic guilty of xenophobic jokes declared undesirable in Russia

Russia’s Interior Ministry has designated the stay in Russia of stand-up comic Idrak Mirzalizade, who had been earlier placed in administrative detention for 10 days for insulting Russian people on account of ethnic descent, undesirable.

14:33 30.08.2021

Journalist Union urges to put end to discrimination against Russian journalists abroad

The unprecedented pressure on Russian journalists abroad must be immediately and completely stopped, the Union of Journalists of Russia has stated.

17:53 19.08.2021

Russophobes may be barred from entering Russia – draft law

The United Russia party lawmakers have drafted a bill to ban Russophobes from entering the country.

14:36 19.08.2021

Stand-up comic loses appeal against sentence for xenophobic jokes about Russians

The Moscow City Court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal filed by stand-up comic Idrak Mirzalizade, who had been placed in administrative detention for 10 days for insulting Russian people on account of ethnic descent, against his sentence.

13:35 11.08.2021

Stand-up comic appeals sentence for xenophobic jokes about Russians

Stand-up comic Idrak Mirzalizade, who had been placed in administrative detention for 10 days for insulting Russian people on account of ethnic descent, appealed his sentence.

16:27 10.08.2021

Stand-up comic detained for 10 days for xenophobic jokes about Russians

Moscow’s Tagansky District Court on Monday placed stand-up comic Idrak Mirzalizade in administrative detention for 10 days for insulting Russian people on account of ethnic descent.

16:52 09.08.2021

Assault on Russian speakers abroad may result in ban on entry into Russia – State Duma

Lawmakers on Monday proposed to prohibit people committing assaults on Russian-speaking persons abroad from entering Russia.

15:07 09.08.2021

Ombudsman Moskalkova urges international community to protect Russian speakers in Ukraine

Russian Ombudsman Tatiana Moskalkova has called international human rights organizations to take measures to prevent further discrimination of the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine.

16:00 30.07.2021

Russian Civic Chamber member urges UN to take fair and unbiased stand on Crimea

Ivan Abazher, a member of the Russian Civic Chamber Commission on Security and Cooperation with Public Supervisory Commissions, has urged the UN to fairly and objectively react to Ukraine's actions in relation to Crimea.

17:46 09.07.2021

Moskalkova exasperated by crack down on rights of Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine

A bill on indigenous peoples of Ukraine submitted by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to the Verkhovna Rada ignores Russians as natives of the country, according to Russia’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Tatiana Moskalkova.

17:39 11.06.2021

Russia’s antimonopoly watchdog suspects Yandex of market discrimination

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has issued a warning to Yandex company over creation of discriminatory conditions in the search engine.

11:07 25.02.2021

Rights activists to turn to CoE over discrimination of Russian-speaking residents of Latvia

The Standing Commission on International Cooperation in Human Rights of Russia’s Presidential Human Rights Council plans to draft a letter to Russia’s Foreign Ministry, which the body is to readdress to Latvian authorities and the Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner over discrimination of Russian speakers in that country, Council member Alexander Brod informs RAPSI.

16:44 10.02.2021

Russian Human Rights Council supports court ruling on discrimination in Aeroflot

Russia’s Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights has supported a ruling of the Moscow City Court in favor of Aeroflot airline’s stewardess Irina Iyerusalimskaya over discrimination on the basis of clothing size.

15:29 07.09.2017

Russian antimonopoly watchdog files case against Metro Cash & Carry

The Moscow regional office of the Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has filed a case against Metro Cash & Carry and Lenta chain stores over discrimination of suppliers.

12:52 28.08.2017

ECHR rules Russian 'gay propaganda' ban to be discriminatory

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Russian authorities have violated right to freedom of expression and discriminated gay right activists by adopting a law banning propaganda of non‑traditional sexual relations aimed at minors.

13:25 20.06.2017

HIV positive Ukrainian allowed to stay in Russia

The Kirovsky District Court of St. Petersburg on Tuesday found invalid a Supervision of Consumer Protection and Welfare resolution that determined the status of an HIV positive Ukrainian national’s stay in Russia as undesirable due to his condition.

17:56 18.08.2015

Russian investigators open case on humiliation and discrimination of disabled person

Russian investigators have opened a case on humiliation of a person’s dignity after an incident at a Nizhny Novgorod café involving the family of famous model Natalia Vodianova.

12:02 13.08.2015

Russian bus company fined for refusing service to passenger wearing hijab

The Kaliningrad Central Court fined a bus company that refused to carry a passenger wearing a hijab, the press service of the court told RAPSI.

13:57 07.11.2014

ECHR looks into Russia’s treatment of Jehovah’s Witnesses

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) communicated a vast collection of complaints this month to Russia in connection with the treatment of Jehovah’s Witnesses throughout the country.

17:15 25.03.2014