At a meeting of Russia’s Council on Interethnic Relations, President Vladimir Putin declared that the situation in this area was improving and proposed extending the Year of the Unity of the Peoples of Russia beyond 31 December. Participants in what was a conspicuously upbeat gathering spoke about friendship between peoples, serving together in the war against Ukraine, volunteering and preserving “traditional values”. But they had little to say about the causes of actual interethnic conflicts, systematic discrimination or the state of minority languages.
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