Presenter – Vyacheslav Likhachov – historian, political scientist, member of the Expert Council of the Center for Civil Liberties, head of the monitoring group for manifestations of anti-Semitism and xenophobia in Ukraine. Recording: https://youtu.be/Lw85h_j9kMQ

For more than 5 years, the ZFU, in cooperation with the Diye-Slovo studio, has provided a platform for presenting the Monitoring of Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia in Ukraine.

For both countries, the full-scale war has served as a catalyst for societal processes that began earlier but were not very visible to outside observers. Ukraine, it seems, has definitively shed its image as an “anti-Semitic country,” even in the eyes of biased commentators. To appreciate the significance of this shift in the mass Jewish consciousness, one does not need to delve into the era of the Shvartsburd trial – just recall the concerns expressed by journalists and even respected researchers after the Revolution of Dignity. The distance our country has traveled is worth reflecting on and evaluating.

In Russia, through the portal that opened on February 24, all the possible demons of the past, including anti-Semitism, have been unleashed, which had been largely forgotten in previous years. At the same time, information about the situation in the country is increasingly filtered through the propaganda cocoon.

The dynamics in both cases are so rapid that it seems justified to not only state the current trends but also think about possible scenarios for the future.