Between Litigation and Freedom of Speech
Between Litigation and Freedom of Speech

Summary/Abstract: Starting from 2002, in its reports and advocacy documents related to Roma rights matters in Russia, the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) emphasised that Russian media contributes to and often incites anti-Romani attitudes in society. However, before 2005, monitoring anti-Romani hate speech in the Russian media had not been conducted systematically and it did not show the true dimension of the problem. In rare cases, such human rights NGOs as the Information- Analytical Centre “SOVA” and the Northwest Centre for the Legal and Social Protection of Roma made attempts to raise the issue of anti- Romani hate speech. Romani NGOs such as the Federal National Cultural Autonomy and Roma Ural also contributed to the issue by sending a few letters of concern about hate speech appearing in newspaper articles and TV programmes. [....]

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