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Afro-Russian social movements have emerged in recent years as a response to the discrimination and marginalization experienced by people of Russian-African descent. The Sputnik Association is a social movement founded in London, UK in 2006 by a group of Russian emigrants and Afro-Russian people.
Black Russians. Black Russians ( French: Russes noirs) is an unofficial name given to a group of pro–government militias in the Central African Republic, recruited mostly from former Anti-Balaka and UPC fighters by Wagner Group. The militias have been accused of multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Traditionally, Russian racism includes antisemitism and Tatarophobia, as well as hostility towards the various peoples of the Caucasus, Central Asia, East Asia and Africa. [1] According to the United Nations, Russia's immigrant population is the world's third-largest, numbering over 11.6 million. [2]
Russia, as the largest country in the world, has great ethnic diversity, is a multinational state, and is home to over 190 ethnic groups nationwide.According to the population census at the end of 2021, more than 147.1 million people lived in Russia, which is 4.3 million more than in the 2010 census, or 3.03%.
Russian, Abkhazian, Georgian, Mingrelian. Abkhazians of African descent or Afro-Abkhazians, also known as African Caucasians, were a small group of people of African descent in Abkhazia, [note 1] who used to live mainly in the settlement Adzyubzha at the mouth of the Kodori River and the surrounding villages ( Chlou, Pokvesh, Agdarra and ...
The Black Hundreds were reactionary, monarchist and ultra-nationalist groups in Russia in the early 20th century. They were staunch supporters of the House of Romanov, and opposed any retreat from the autocracy of the reigning monarch. Their name arose from the medieval concept of "black", or common (non-noble) people, organized into militias.
early 1970s–2008. Natalia Mikhailovna Schneiderman ( Russian: Наталья Михайловна Шнайдерман, romanized: Natal'ya Mikhaylovna Shnayderman, IPA: [nɐˈtalʲjə mʲɪˈxajlɐvnə ˈʂnajdʲɪrmən]; May 22, 1956 – July 2, 2008), known as Natasha Shneider, was a Latvian-born Russian-American musician and actress. She ...
Months before his arrest in Russia, U.S. Army soldier Gordon Black made a surprise video call from his overseas tour in South Korea to his 6-year-old daughter in Texas. Instead of a normal chat ...