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Center for Countering Disinformation: Russia spreads fake threats to Hungarians in Ukraine

Ethnic Hungarians in Ukraine have received fake text threats allegedly from "Ukrainian nationalists" calling on them to "get out of Ukraine." However, the accounts use codes of mobile operators from Kazakhstan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kyrgyzstan.

byMaria Tril

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Ukraine’s Parliament passes national minorities law, addressing EU recommendations

Ukraine's parliament passed a law on protecting national minority rights, meeting one more of the seven recommendation from the EU for candidate status.

byIryna Voichuk

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Russia

Moscow demonized Ukrainians exploiting ethnic discord it promoted in Russia, activist from Kamchatka says

The activist from Kamchatka who now lives as a political exile in Norway says that discrimination against national…

byPaul A. Goble

Russian state crest in front of full moon (Image: vedomosti.ru)

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Moscow supports Northern peoples in ways designed to cost them their way of life and identity, Horyevoy says

The Ukrainian journalist who specializes on religious and ethnic questions presents a damning portrait of what the Russian…

byPaul A. Goble

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On historical unity in a prison of nations: Ukraine’s Institute of National Remembrance Head strikes back at Putin

For decades, Vladimir Putin has been working diligently on his international image. He believes it is not enough…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

Rafael Khakimov, Kazan historian and former advisor to Tatarstan president Mintimir Shaymiyev (Photo: Sultan Iskhakov for Milliard.Tatar)

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Putin’s tale about unity of Russians and Ukrainians prompts Kazan scholar to speak about real unity of Turkic peoples

“Historically,” Khakimov says, “the Turkic peoples formed on the territory of the Turkic khanate … extending from the…

byPaul A. Goble

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Moscow’s effort to isolate Finno-Ugric peoples in Russia from Finno-Ugric world proves less than fully successful

That effort was described by Prague-based commentator Vadim Sidorov as an effort to erect a new “iron curtain”…

byPaul A. Goble

World Congress of Tatars, August 2017 (Image: business-online.ru)

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Kremlin simultaneously seeking to destroy republics and nations on which they rest, Shro says

In a Guildhall commentary, he suggests that these two processes, in turn, are connected with “the strengthening of…

byPaul A. Goble

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Catalonian portal highlights Udmurt efforts to preserve that nation and its language

Alex Bustos, a Catalan journalist who has made a visit to Russia, points out that “in the very…

byPaul A. Goble

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Moscow splitting Finno-Ugric languages to promote assimilation to Russian, Mari linguist says

Some people view what the Russian authorities are doing as solicitous of ethnic differences, says Kuznetsova, the Estonian…

byPaul A. Goble

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó (on the left) and Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba. (Photo by Mátyás Borsos/Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary)

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Ukraine and Hungary move to settle differences over national minority legislation

Kyiv and Budapest have initiated an effort to resolve their differences over the impact of Ukrainian language and…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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What the Ukrainian nation should be – Zelenskyy’s New Year speech provoked discussion on identity and nationhood

Zelenskyy’s New Year greeting can be read in English here. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo7JDweEAYs[/embedyt] “What is the difference” – the…

byBohdan Ben