Explainer: What Does Russia’s Exit From the Convention on National Minorities Mean?  - The Moscow Times
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President Vladimir Putin last week introduced a bill greenlighting Russia’s exit from the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM), the world’s most comprehensive legally binding treaty devoted to safeguarding the rights of minority groups.  Russia is home to representatives of as many as 193 ethnic groups who speak at least 270 languages and dialects, according to official statistics.

Experts and activists agree that Russia’s policies and actions towards minorities have long contradicted some of the key principles of the Framework Convention on Minorities.

Among such discriminatory policies are repressions against ethnic and decolonial activists, restrictions on teaching and public usage of minority languages and forced assimilation and discrimination of ethnic Ukrainians in Russia and the occupied Ukrainian territories.

“Now there are more problems in Russia than ever before. Russia is inflating chauvinistic nationalism and the rights of national minorities are curtailed severely,” one expert says.

  •  magnetosphere   ( @HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org ) English
    5•9 months ago

    TL,DR: Putin doesn’t understand the difference between “discrimination” and “consequences”. He’s mad that people are treating his government negatively because he invaded Ukraine, so by quitting the Convention, he’s giving himself even more permission to be a brutal, authoritarian asshole.