As Russia continues to deny military involvement in Ukraine, it appeared to be fighting an image war last week at the United Nations – in what has become an annual exercise in condemning Nazism and racism.
For about a decade, the U.N. General Assembly committee that deals with human rights has voted each year on a Russian-drafted resolution condemning the glorification of Nazism and Neo-Nazism and all forms of racism, xenophobia and intolerance.
The non-binding resolution receives wide-support – this year 115 countries voted in favor of it – while the United States and Canada traditionally vote against it and the European …read more
Source: Voice of America
