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As TASS reports, eleven participants in the 51st Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council came up with a joint statement condemning discrimination against Russians and Russian speakers on Monday.
“We are deeply concerned with regard to the unprecedented scale and depth of discrimination unleashed by the authorities of a number of countries against Russians and Russian speaking people in recent months. Since the end of February of this year, Russians have been discriminated systematically on ethnic and linguistic grounds,” the statement reads.
The statement was co-sponsored by Russia, Belarus, Bolivia, China, Ethiopia, Iran, Myanmar, Nicaragua, North Korea, Syria and Venezuela.
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This is based on TASS report:
