Earlier we described the situation with Russia’s permanent provocations in United Nations bodies, connected with UN General Assembly resolutions, devoted to glorification of Nazism, that continues in the last decade.
Annually Russia initiates there the adoption of resolutions of same name and similar text, as “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance”; but after 2022 activities of our Association caused relevant amendments to UN GA Resolution 77/204, adopted on 15 December 2022, Resolution 79/160, adopted on 17 December 2024 and Resolution 78/190 adopted on 19 December 2023.
Of course, the Russia’s goal of such propaganda activities in not in the countering Nazism, but in demonstrating the alleged “unity” with other states, that support those documents by voting in UN GA Third Committee and in Assembly, and to criticise the democratic states as allegedly “not fighting” with neo-Nazism and racism.
So amendments, initiated by our Association to those UN GA resolutions, were reflected in their similar point 4, where Assembly “notes with alarm that the Russian Federation has sought to justify its territorial aggression against Ukraine on the purported basis of eliminating neo-Nazism, and underlines that the pretextual use of neo-Nazism to justify territorial aggression seriously undermines genuine attempts to combat neo-Nazism.”
Sush amendments were grounded on our communication with UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, reflected in UN Report A/HRC/50/61, 2022, UN Report A/78/302, 2023, UN Reports A/79/195 and A/HRC/56/67, 2024 that reflected again our information on aggressor’s next spikes in hate speech, xenophobia and racially discriminatory statements.
Now, after our new submissions, to UN Rapporteur, she published next Report A/HRC/59/63 this June, recognising there, upon our Association’s input, that since the invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Russian broad military aggression across Ukraine was accompanied by propaganda and online hate speech targeting Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars.
Also Report A/HRC/59/63 reflected our informing about systemic racial discrimination, including enforced displacement and deportation, against ethnic Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars by aggressor’s “authorities”, Report also recognised that International Court of Justice had ruled on 31 January 2024 that the aggressor’s “management” of the “education system” in Crimea since 2014 had violated the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Report A/HRC/59/63 reflects again our thesis that the use of neo-Nazism as a pretext to justify territorial aggression seriously undermined genuine attempts to combat neo-Nazism, which is crucial regarding the next aggressor’s provocations in UN GA,similar to described above. So our Association will continue its own efforts on that issue, describing and reminding to UN bodies and agencies facts about Russian aggression, Russia’s Nazism and racism at Russia-occupied territories, including the Crimea, and in Kremlin’s propaganda.
