Discrimination against Russians in the post-Soviet countries

Discrimination against Russians in the post-Soviet space is discrimination against a person based on ethnicity on the territory of states that were formed after the collapse of the USSR. A related concept is Russophobia.

After the collapse of the USSR in 1991 and the formation of new independent states, 25 million Russians ended up outside Russia, which is much more than the entire emigration of Russians from Russia abroad during the period from 1881 until the collapse of the USSR. At present, the main mechanisms of pressure on Russians are all sorts of restrictions in civil and political rights, the narrowing of the sphere of use of the Russian language, the ousting of Russians from the sphere of government, intellectual work, and private business.

In the mid-1990s, a survey of Russians in Kyrgyzstan, Moldova and Lithuania was conducted in order to “analyze the public opinion of Russians from the new abroad about their own problems, the role of Russia in resolving them, about their place in the post-Soviet ethnopolitical space”. According to this study, the majority of Russians in the neighboring countries are of the opinion that their situation changed dramatically for the worse after the collapse of the USSR.

In their opinion, discrimination against Russians took place in the political, socio-economic and cultural-linguistic spheres. Thus, a significant part of the respondents (from 24% in Kyrgyzstan to 75% in Moldova) believed that the introduction of the law on state language made it difficult for Russians to enter universities. Slightly fewer respondents believed that this contributed to negative phenomena in the labor sphere (increased the likelihood of dismissal, made it difficult for promotion and employment). At the same time, about 50% of the respondents predicted difficulties in their careers because of their nationality. Experiencing discrimination, the overwhelming majority of Russians were of the opinion about the need for measures to protect their interests and rights. At the same time, they believed that the authorities of their states of residence, as well as the authorities of Russia, should act as defenders.

According to the political scientist A. M. Zharov, Russians in the neighboring countries were subjected to explicit or latent forms of discrimination when hiring, doing business, purchasing and selling housing, and retaining Russian citizenship. According to OV Ladygina, the facts of discrimination against Russians in the post-Soviet space "take place when hiring, getting an education, calculating a pension, receiving housing".

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