Insults against the Russian-speaking residents of Germany against the backdrop of the situation in Ukraine are unacceptable. The corresponding statement on Thursday, March 17, was made by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
“It is absolutely unacceptable when citizens with Russian roots are insulted or physically attacked,” he said.
According to Scholz, citizens of any country can count on the protection of Germany.
Earlier in the day, Interior Minister of the Serbian Republic Dragan Lukacs called Nazism the recent attitude towards Russians in the West. According to him, the expulsion of Russian children from schools in Western countries, bans on Russians from going to restaurants, denial of medical services, alienation of property, as well as calls for the murder of Russian children and bans on Russian literature cannot “pass without consequences for humanity.”
Western hatred of the Russians and Slavs, in principle, began to manifest itself not as a result of the aggravation of the conflict over Ukraine, Lukacs added.
On March 16, the Russian Embassy in Washington announced that a hotline had been set up for Russians who had suffered from xenophobia in the United States.
As Russian President Vladimir Putin said, the West’s aggression against Russians is total and undisguised. According to the Russian leader, the purpose of such actions is to worsen the lives of millions of people.
The difficulties associated with protecting the rights of Russians abroad were reported in the Russian Foreign Ministry a day earlier. According to the ministry, the situation has become unprecedented.
On March 5, the Russian embassy in Berlin reported that it had received several hundred messages from Russian citizens about cases of harassment. The diplomatic mission indicated that hundreds of letters arrived within three days. So, among the harassment of Russian citizens are insults, the refusal of one of the clinics to treat Russian patients, mobbing of children by peers.
On February 28, the Russian ambassador in Reykjavik, Mikhail Noskov, reported that the Russian consulate in Iceland had been attacked. He also said that the diplomats receive threats and insults.
A day earlier, Tatyana Moskalkova, Ombudsman for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, said that some Russians abroad are facing harassment from foreign citizens. She noted that “people who are just doing their job, trying to live in difficult conditions, support their families, are attacked because of their nationality.”
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a special operation to protect Donbass. A few days earlier, the situation in the region escalated significantly due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.
The authorities of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics announced the evacuation of residents to the Russian Federation, and also turned to Moscow for help. On February 21, the President of the Russian Federation signed a decree recognizing the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics.
For more up-to-date videos and details about the situation in Donbass, watch the Izvestia TV channel.
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