Anotated Bibliography
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"Minority Peoples and Their Territories." Country Studies. U.S. Library of Congress. 22 Apr. 2008 <http://countrystudies.us/russia/34.htm>.
Synopsis: Ethnic Groups. This website contains information on thirty-one Russian republics designated by their ethnicity. By the mid-1990’s only twenty-one republics remained from it’s original thirty-one
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Ireland, Corydon. "Ethnic Violence in Russia Rises." Harvard University Gazette. Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union. 19 Oct. 2006 <http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/10.19/15-russia.html>.
Synopsis: Ethnic Groups. This web site states that violence among ethnic groups continues to increase. According to the article Russians increase attacks on muslims, jews, etc. Russia Government officials are doing little to stop the violence and if it continues to escalate it may threaten the economic and political stability of Russia
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"Ethnic Minorities." Stop Violence Against Women. 06 Jan. 2005. Indigenous Peoples and the Justice System in Russia. 22 Apr. 2008 <http://www.stopvaw.org/Ethnic_Minorities11.html>.
Synopsis: Ethnic Groups. This web site states that there are hundreds of religeous and ethnic minorities in Russia. Russia consists of twenty one republics and ten okrugs (districts) which are classified as an “ethnic homeland” to minorities.
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"Antidiscrimination in Russia." Justice Initiative. Center for Development of Democracy and Human Rights. 22 Apr. 2008 <http://www.justiceinitiative.org/activities/ec/ec_russia>.
Synopsis: Ethnic Groups. This website contains information on discrimination of ethnic minorities on the territory of the Russian Federation. Ethnic minorities human rights are invaded when law enforcers racially select inspections and check identities.
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Mite, Valentinas. "Russia: Rights Activists Say Abuses Continue in Chechnya -- and Kremlin Should Answer for Them." Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. 28 Jan. 2004 <http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2004/1/5095508A-005B-45CF-A4FC-7CA4629671BD.html>.
Synopsis: Ethnic Groups. This website contains information on Human Rights violated in the republic of Chechnya. Chechen civilians are abused by both Russian troops and Chechen fighters. The president is responsible for most of the violence there.
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"Ethnic Minorities Under Attack." Amnesty International. 22 Apr. 2008 <http://www.amnesty.org/russia/minorities.html>.
Synopsis: Ethnic Groups. This website contains information about Six African asylum-seekers who were attacked by a gang of "skinheads". One of the African aslyum-seekers was beaten unconscious and died a few days later.
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"Ethnic Diversity." The Empire That Was Russia. Library of Congress. 09 Dec. 2003 <http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/ethnic.html>.
Synopsis: Ethnic Groups. this web site contains information about Russia and it's ethnic diversity. Russia was what is now the Present day Soviet Union, Finland, and much of Poland. It was home to over 150 million people; half of them were ethnic Russians.
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"No Place Like Home." Guardian.Co.Uk. Guardian News and Media Limited 2008. 15 Sept. 2005 <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/sep/15/worlddispatch.russia>.
Synopsis: Ethnic Groups. This web site contains information on Ethnic Russians and and how they take a great loss when they move back to their motherland, Russia. Many russians fell in depth because of the rate of immigartion.
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Morozov, Nikolai A. "THE MEASURES BEING TAKEN BY THE RUSSIAN INTERIOR MINISTRY TO COMBAT ETHNIC CRIMES." Global Security. 24 Dec. 1999 <http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/1999/12/991224-chechen-rus2.htm>.
Synopsis: Ethnic Groups. This web site contains information about how the Russian Interior Ministry tries to fight and reduce ethnic russain crimes. This web site talks about different districts of Russia with crime and what they need to do to stop it.
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"Compliance of the Russian Federation with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination." Human Rights Centre ‘Memorial’. Russian NGOs Network Against Racism. Dec. 2002 <http://www.memo.ru/eng/hr/dscr0212e/index.htm>.
Synopsis: Ethnic Groups. This web site contains information about racicsm against two of Russia's most vulnerable ethnic groups: Meskhetian Turks in Krasnodar Krai of the Russian Federation and Chechens across Russia.
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Charny, Сем S. "Racism, Xenophobia, Ethnic Discrimination and Anti-Semitism in Russia (January-June 2005)." INTERETHNIC. Moscow Bureau for Human Rights. 05 May 2005 <http://www.interethnic.org/EngNews/051005_1.html>.
Synopsis: Ethnic Groups. This web site contains information about xenophobia in Russia. The number of supporters of xenophobic slogans ranged from between 50 to 60%.
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"Polish / Russian." Immigration. 09 Aug. 2004 <http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/polish.html>.
Synopsis: Ethnic Groups. This website contains information about the expansion of the Russian Empire. The empire was diverse consisted of ethnic groups whom were conquered.