GENEVA, March 28. /TASS/. Western counties systematically violate the rights of Russian nationals, the Russian delegation to the 55th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council said.
"We have to draw attention to the systematic violations of the rights of Russian nationals and compatriots in Western countries," Gyuzal Khusanova, a delegation member, told the session.
Thus, according to Khusanova, Poland has launched an unprecedented anti-Russian propaganda campaign, which "gave an impetus to unbridled Russophobia." As part of the "aggressive propagation of the cult of Nazi accomplices and revising history," the Baltic countries’ authorities are pursuing a discriminatory policies geared at eliminating ethnic, language and national diversity, she said, adding that Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have embarked on a path of cancelling everything Russian and infringing on the rights of Russian-speaking residents they don’t like.
Hatred to Russians is being "propagated on television, the internet and social networks" in Ukraine, she went on to say. Thousands of politically-motivated criminal cases have been initiated against the dissenting. Public and human rights activists, politicians, and journalists are persecuted. Repressions against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church continue.
"At the direction of Western sponsors, Chisinau is copying Ukraine’s and Baltic countries’ nationalist policy," Khusanova noted.
Meanwhile, the collective West "is hypocritically turning blind eye on these flagrant violations, being focused solely on blaming Russia and other countries it doesn’t like," she stressed. It "demonstratively ignores" the recent ruling of the UN International Court of Justice, which recognized void "Ukraine’s allegations about the discrimination of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars in Russia."
The 55th session of the Human Rights Council is being held in Geneva from February 26 to April 5. Russia is not a member of the Council but takes part in its sessions.