Earlier we described the situation with Russia’s permanent provocations in United Nations bodies, connected with UN General Assembly resolutions devoted to the glorification of Nazism, that continue in the last decade.
Annually Russia initiates there the adoption of resolutions of the same name and similar text, such 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 78/190, adopted on 19 December 2023, and Resolution 79/160, adopted on 17 December 2024.
We stressed in our research that Russia’s goal of such propaganda activities is not in countering Nazism but in demonstrating the alleged “unity” with other states that support those documents by voting in the UN GA Third Committee and in the Assembly and in criticizing the democratic states as allegedly “not fighting” with neo-Nazism and racism. Such amendments, initiated by our Association to those UN GA resolutions, were reflected in their similar point 4, which appeared after relevant procedural activities of democratic states in the United Nations.
Such amendments were grounded on our communication with the UN Special Rapporteurs 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; and UN Report A/HRC/59/63, 2025.
Report A/HRC/59/63 reflected 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 countering the next aggressor’s provocations in the UN GA, similar to those described above.
Now the full text of the next UN Resolution 80/192, dated 15 December 2025 on the same issue was published at the UN official web-sources in February, and this act stressed again in its point 4 that the 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.”
Our Association will continue its own efforts on that issue, describing and reminding UN bodies and agencies of facts about Russian aggression, Russia’s Nazism and racism in Russia-occupied territories, including the Crimea, and countering relevant Kremlin propaganda.
