Keyword: «discrimination»

The article presents an analysis of modern Russian historiography of Russian and Russian-speaking population position in the Baltic countries in the post-Soviet period. Particular attention is paid to the coverage in historical science of the problems of mass statelessness, legal and political discrimination of the Russian-speaking population in the Baltic republics. The article notes the fact that the authorities of the Baltic States are implementing the policy of overt and covert assimilation of the Russian-speaking population for a long time in their territories. According to the results of the study, the author concludes that Russian political scientists and historians unanimously agree that the Baltic republics authorities have been implementing a discriminatory policy against the Russian population for nearly 30 years, which does not comply with international law.

The article discusses the features of men’s acceptance of discriminatory attitudes towards girls in hijab and without it. The article presents the results of the study, which involved 371 men aged 18 to 55 years old, average age of 25 years, residents of Rostov-on-Don, Russia. It is concluded that men are not inclined to approve discriminatory behavior to the girls in the hijab or without it.

The article focuses on the situation of women in the labor market. Gender features, their interrelation with economic impact from labor activity are considered. Many aspects of women's position in the labour market may appear discriminatory, but they are not. As practice shows, gender differences in the labor market are quite stable.

The introduction of a restriction to initiate the dissolution of a marriage by a spouse during the wife's pregnancy and before the child reaches the age of one year can be interpreted as a gender asymmetry that violates the constitutional principle of equality between men and women in all spheres of life. Analysis of the ratio of goals and its achievement demonstrates the inefficiency of the art. 17 of the Family Code of the Russian Federation legal norm. The ratio of the social and legal care of the state for a woman and a child with respect for the personal non-property and property rights of spouses needs to be modernized, and the norms of the Family Code of the Russian Federation and the legal positions of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation need to be adjusted in order to eliminate the imbalance.

Legal capacity is one of the basic elements of legal status. As stated in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities legal capacity regulates the need to exercise the rights and meet the legitimate interests of people with disabilities. However, in practice, along with many other people with disabilities, the legal status of people with mental and intellectual disabilities can be questioned. In some cases, such citizens are deprived of legal capacity on a formal basis, which leads to exclusion in the implementation of their own intentions, which is a problem of the law enforcement system.