Congress of National Communities of Ukraine together with Monitoring Group of minority rights released a report on xenophobia in Ukraine, 2015 chronicles. The most acute minority rights issue concerns the position of the Crimean Tatars. This is corroborated by numerous facts of suppression of the independent national movement, activists’ persecution, and liquidation of Crimean Tatar mass media and other institutions, public events bans, “February 26” affair etc.
Facts of racial, national and religious hatred are observed all over Ukraine. The most vivid example was reported the situation in Kharkiv, attack with against a group of foreign students, which took place in June.
The group also highlighted intensification of a public debate on LGBT issues, what is caused by notorious gay pride marsh held in June.
Together with this, anti-Semitic acts of vandalism are witnessed against Holocaust memorials.
The report also seeks to highlight the anti-Semitic official discourse in so-called Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (DPR, LPR). The DPR and LPR “leaders” actively use the theme of an imaginary Jewish origin of Ukrainian political leaders.
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Crimean Tatars are the most vulnerable target of xenophobia in Ukraine
Religious hatred, LGBT intolerance, vandalism, and racial hate crimes are the most frequent xenophobic actions in last 6 month
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