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International Women’s Day on March 8 is one of the favorite holidays in Russia, when it is customary to shower women with flowers and desirable (or not so desirable) gifts. Traditionally, gifts are given by men, in general — the whole day turns into a day of triumph of a woman — mother, wife, sister, daughter, friend, colleague, neighbor — no woman on this day will be left without at least a verbal congratulation even from unfamiliar men. Also on this day men try to take on women’s chores — housework, such as washing dishes after dinner, cooked by them. Women are assured of love and fidelity, their intelligence and…

In the pre-holiday hustle and bustle, walking through the shopping center, few people would pay attention to a flock of girls in stylish uniforms — these women with delicate looks like oriental princesses — employees of a cleaning company, crowded around a cosmetics store and discussed something cheerfully and noisily, laughing, mixing words of two languages. One of them was on the phone and was obviously helping someone find them, saying the name of the store several times. Suddenly they fell silent as they saw a man approaching. As he approached them, he threatened them with his fist, either jokingly or seriously, a gesture that was enough to make the…

… After the wave of apologies for the long years of slavery and exploitation of African populations in the last decade across Europe and the United States, as well as public discussions of the phenomenon from every possible angle — historical, political, economic and social — have not closed the question of ethical reparations for the victims of slavery. However, with the willingness to recognize the mistakes of the past and to fully examine shameful experiences in human history, is society ready to speak openly about contemporary slavery, to recognize the problem and to address it…? Today, the world is shaken by horrific events centered on human beings — men…

Every day we hear about migrants, interact with them, live near them — well or not so well, but we live together — literally, in a certain location in this period of time, let’s say. In addition to our personal experience of relationships in different spheres of everyday life with representatives of those who were not here a while ago, but now it is hard not to notice, we also know about the experience of others — we hear about them on channels and in public forums, in politicians’ speeches, in economic statistics — almost everywhere. Migrants appear in a multitude of avatars — as outsiders threatening the local population…

People have been moving from place to place in search of better things for as long as humanity has existed, but scientific and technological progress and the availability of means of transportation have accelerated this process by leaps and bounds. According to the UN, there are approximately 281 million international migrants in the world — 3.6 percent of the world’s population. These are people who live and work outside the countries where they were born. They migrate in search of a better life for themselves and their children and make a huge contribution to the development of their host countries and countries of origin. International migration has grown steadily in…