It's a problem of entire Russia. My Asian girlfriend from china was denied to enter a restaurant in Moscow because of her origins...
It's absolutely legal to put restrict your rental apartments nationality. In yandex you can ads like " will lease my house only to russians". It's everywhere.
If you will ride a taxi in russia, an offensive words to other nationalities/ethnicities is everywhere.
The problem is so big, that even non russian/slavic people applied to offend each other. I've been in a taxi when two middle east decent people start screaming to each other "churka" even they are both could apply to this definition.
I personally trying not to invest into anything Russian, simply because that society is very, very sick and they are very far away even from recognition of this problem. They think it's their strength...
> I've been in a taxi when two middle east decent people start screaming to each other "churka"
Another way of interpreting this sort of culture is that they know not to take things too personally and that intent behind words is more important than the words themselves. It's a kind of liberating way of interacting with each other, and not uncommon to see in environments like fraternities or sports teams. Some people will call that culture exclusionary, but I might call those people neurotic.
To put it another way, who are you to be offended on behalf of the people calling each other churka? Clearly they're not offended by it, so shouldn't you let them have their fun?
> My Asian girlfriend from china was denied to enter a restaurant in Moscow because of her origins...
While I'm not questioning your statement - this sound very questionable, considering the number of Chinese tourists in Moscow every year.
>It's absolutely legal to put restrict your rental apartments nationality
>I personally trying not to invest into anything Russian, simply because that society is very, very sick
Do you as a gaijin invest in anything japanese in this case? It is not uncommon to see a "gaijins are not allowed" sign in Japan either.
While it is true that Russia has (and will probably have for a long time) some racism problems (just like superiority complex) - I wouldn't say it's as bad as you think it is (especially compared to 90s for example)
It's illegal but the rental contract is private, so it can be denied without explanation; good luck suing and proving that you're being discriminated.
The discrimination in public ads and places like restaurants is strictly illegal, though essentially not enforced unless you sue, because of the multitude of reasons - racism and lax anti-discrimination policies in particular, and also a million of others (the entire rental housing market is almost unregulated, for one). Lately, most popular ad sites implemented their own discrimination bans, however it still doesn't guarantee that the landlord won't be an asshole.
> It's illegal but the rental contract is private, so it can be denied without explanation; good luck suing and proving that you're being discriminated.
How is this different than in other places in Europe
When worded like this, it's not that different. It's the little details that add up, depending on the actual country. You're much less likely to be discriminated against in UK or Germany than in places like Bulgaria, Ukraine, or Russia. Due to both the attitude and enforcement. The rental market in Germany seems over-regulated, but my black friend of Ethiopian descent (he's Russian, born and raised) had no problem finding a place to live there, while in Russia he's been overtly or silently rejected by the landlords so often so he had to rent the apartment from myself for a year despite it being far away from his work.
i wonder if blatant discrimination against black people is less likely to occur in places like UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, Canada, and US (ok not really the US but lets say for sake of argument) because of the collective guilt white people in those countries carry for colonization, slavery, and other shitty things; whereas slavic and other eastern european people never really did any of those really shitty things to black people. not only that but if i remember correctly ussr and early china provided quite a bit of aid to third world countries in order to overthrow collonialism. that said any discrimination against people is plain disgusting
It's absolutely legal to put restrict your rental apartments nationality. In yandex you can ads like " will lease my house only to russians". It's everywhere.
If you will ride a taxi in russia, an offensive words to other nationalities/ethnicities is everywhere.
The problem is so big, that even non russian/slavic people applied to offend each other. I've been in a taxi when two middle east decent people start screaming to each other "churka" even they are both could apply to this definition.
I personally trying not to invest into anything Russian, simply because that society is very, very sick and they are very far away even from recognition of this problem. They think it's their strength...