INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Diana Akue has been on her guard lately
The Gabonese doctoral economics student in the city of Yekaterinburg avoids going out at night and exercises greater caution around
also moved from Gabon to study economics at Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg, has left her and her fellow classmates from Africa
country, all we can do is just to be careful
Initial media reports, quoting one of his friends, said two men approached Ndjelassili inside a Burger King, harassed and called him racial
outside the restaurant between him and two of the men
The third Russian man, who was not initially involved in the fight, then came up to Ndjelassili and stabbed him under his arm.Disparities in
InstagramAccording to a Russian anti-fascist organization, a closed neo-Nazi channel on the Telegram messaging app with just under 4,000
connections to the group and said they were unaware of the fundraiser, adding that they were paying his legal fees themselves
happened.The university where Ndjelassili was enrolled in a Ph.D
African countries are currently enrolled at Russian universities, an increase of over 4,000 from last year.President Vladimir Putin
role as an ally to a Global South that he claims has been strongarmed by Western powers.Similarly, on the eve of the BRICS summit in South
most recent 2020 poll released by the independent Levada Center pollster, 28% of Russians did not believe Africans should be allowed into
the country, down from 30% in the year before
co-founder of Queer Svit, an NGO that helps LGBT people and ethnic minorities from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia affected by the war.Tesfaye,
who is herself black, said her own relatives have faced threats and violence since they immigrated to Russia from Ethiopia in the early
1980s, when the Soviet government drew on anti-colonial rhetoric just as the Kremlin is increasingly doing today.Yet racism in Russia is
often more subtle than explosive in nature
people living in Russia were recorded between 2015 and 2020
protecting themselves collectively as a group, and so most racially motivated attacks against people of color throughout Russia go
Francois Njelassili in Yekaterinburg.Diana Akue / InstagramIn 2017, a student from Chad was stabbed to death outside university dormitories
in Kazan by a group of neo-Nazis
walking on a street in St
Petersburg by a group of white supremacists who were involved in a series of other murders, including a student from Senegal and one from
Vietnam.Of course, many confrontations do not escalate into murder or violence.Silas Nsangwie, a Nigerian who used to study at a university
in the southern city of Saratov, told The Moscow Times of an instance when he was harassed by a man at the supermarket during his first days
uncommon for him to receive racial slurs or strange looks on the bus during his student years.He decided to leave Russia after one of his
instructors in Saratov refused to let him pass a course that would have allowed him to graduate
spoke to The Moscow Times shared a similar view, placing a degree of responsibility on the individuals facing discrimination to behave
