Russia’s leading human rights groups say that ethnic Russians are now actively discriminating against ethnic Ukrainians, even though Vladimir Putin invariably insists that Russians and Ukrainians are one people, and also persecuting Crimean Tatars, Roma, North Caucasians and numerically small peoples of the North. Yekaterina Trifonova of Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes on August 14 that earlier … Continue reading Russians persecuting ethnic Ukrainians, other ethnic groups, rights groups say