📋 Tender Overview
From the takeover of Crimea in 2014 to all-out war today Russias aggression against independent multi-ethnic Ukraine is taking a huge toll on Ukrainian citizens of all backgrounds including ethnic Russians. In parts of Ukraine that Russia controls or occupies ethnic groups that Russia sees as a threat to its rule are targeted for repression or even harsher measures.Russian authorities continue to harass and imprison Crimean Tatars as well as ethnic Ukrainians and others who peacefully oppose the occupation. Dozens of people were arrested and sentenced to long prison terms such as Nariman Dzhelal Deputy Head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars. The occupying authorities in Crimea even persecute lawyers defending Crimean Tatars some of them were even detained during trials when they were defending their clients and four including three leading human rights lawyers in Crimea were stripped of their lawyer status by Russian authorities over the summer. This tactic also included denying due process to those targeted lawyers were not informed of the charges against themPutin has justified his blatant violation of Ukraines sovereignty and territorial integrity with claims that there is no independent Ukrainian identity. Russias propaganda its barbaric filtration operations and forced deportations even the curricula it imposes on schools in the cities it has captured aim to Russify these territories and suppress the rich history and culture of democratic Ukraine that shape its unique identity.Russia has stepped up its passportization campaign in Ukraine forcing hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens in areas it controls or occupies to acquire Russian Federation citizenship and surrender their Ukrainian passports. Now as part of his attempt to forcefully change Ukraines internationally recognized borders Putin claims to have annexed parts of its territory. Russias illegal actions in connection with the alleged annexation cannot be enforceable under international law.Meanwhile in Russia there is socioeconomic discrimination and state-sponsored harassment against Chechens Tatars Dagestanis Buryats and other minority groups as well as against migrant workers from Central Asian states.
