Valery Engel

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Legislation and Law Enforcement Practices in the OSCE area: Main tendencies in the Fighting of Extremism, 2018-20

September 9, 2021

Sometime ago, an international team of authors, as part of the work of my European Centre for Democracy Development, completed a major project to monitor manifestations of xenophobia and extremism…

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7 min

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Ukraine wants to move the remains of collaborators to the national Pantheon in Kiev

May 12, 2021

On 9 April 2015, the Ukrainian Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, passed by a majority vote the law “On the legal status and commemoration of fighters for Ukraine’s independence in the…

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6 min

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Is Russia Immune to Anti-Semitism?

January 27, 2021

A new report on anti-Semitism in Russia for June-September 2020 was published in Moscow in October by the independent Center for Information and Analysis, SOVA. A month earlier, another study by a Russian think…

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12 min

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Can new educational reforms in Ukraine be seen as a tool for forced assimilation of national minorities?

September 8, 2020

Introduction The crisis in Ukraine has several aspects. One of the most important problems is the issue of language. The law “on education”, adopted in 2017, as well as the…

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10 min

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Can Volodymyr Zelensky Bring Peace to Eastern Ukraine?

July 8, 2020

Volodymyr Zelensky made a campaign promise to establish peace in eastern Ukraine. The far right will have a say on whether that happens or not. Six years ago, a political…

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12 min

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Will be the world more tolerant after the Covid-19 Pandemic?

May 27, 2020

Introduction In April 2020, the German radical right party ‘Alternative for Germany’ (AfD) lost more than 4% in the opinion polls compared to January. Its popularity this month was at…

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16 min

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Putin’s Amendments To Russia’s Constitution Sparks Debate About Russian Nationalism

April 23, 2020

Amendments expanding Putin’s power and language about the “state-forming role” of the Russian national majority, raises ethno-nationalism concerns. On many occasions, Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for the adoption…

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9 min

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Zelensky Struggles To Contain Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Problem

November 30, 2019

Militiamen of Ukraine’s nationalist movement are espousing white supremacist views. This is one of the challenges Ukrainian President Zelensky is facing. On October 10, during a “marathon” press conference in Kiev, President…

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8 min

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Russia Needs a New National Idea

November 7, 2019

After the collapse of the USSR, Russia, abandoning socialism as a path of development, also abandoned communist ideas, but didn’t replace them with new ideology. With the coming to power…

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8 min

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How Tolerant Is Russian Society?

October 2, 2019

Analysis of statistical data shows that, on the whole, the positive trend in the deradicalization of Russian society is likely to continue. Russia has published the full results of opinion…

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Legislation and Law Enforcement Practices in the OSCE area: Main tendencies in the Fighting of Extremism, 2018-20

Ukraine wants to move the remains of collaborators to the national Pantheon in Kiev

Is Russia Immune to Anti-Semitism?

Can new educational reforms in Ukraine be seen as a tool for forced assimilation of national minorities?

Can Volodymyr Zelensky Bring Peace to Eastern Ukraine?

Will be the world more tolerant after the Covid-19 Pandemic?

Putin’s Amendments To Russia’s Constitution Sparks Debate About Russian Nationalism

Zelensky Struggles To Contain Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Problem

Russia Needs a New National Idea

How Tolerant Is Russian Society?

The Dangers of France’s New Radical Right Conspiracist Guru: The case of Mia Montemaggi and the Conspiracy theorist Rémy Daillet-Wiedemann

The FBI’s 2020 Hate Crime Report Shows 12-Year High, But Spotlights Underreporting

Profile of Austrian Nazi and Holocaust perpetrator, Odilo Globocnik

Legislation and Law Enforcement Practices in the OSCE area: Main tendencies in the Fighting of Extremism, 2018-20

10 Years on from 22 July: Norway follows Denmark´s lead on Anti-Immigration