How did the company decide who to lay off? They didn't even ask EMs?

I used to work for a manager who would blatantly say "I will not hire a white person for this position". Of course, it wasn't an official policy to exclude people based on race. I'm pretty sure that would be illegal? But in practice, some hiring managers would sometimes reject or not even consider candidates of certain races. I've also seen people on hiring panels lower standards explicitly because of "diversity" (but to be fair, only when the candidate was on the fence of hire/no-hire).

This is not accurate. In the USSR and after its collapse, Russians generally don't consider themselves European. I also think this aligns more or less with how the rest of the world sees Russia if you consider the standards of living and the freedoms citizens have in Russia (e.g., no freedom of speech; not being able to freely travel to most of the world). On top of that, don't forget that geographically, most of Russia is in Asia.

Do you realize that the government restricting access to alternative media sources even more will result in fewer and fewer people in russia opposing the status quo?

Decolonizing from who? From Russia? Mongolia was never colonized by Russia, it was the other way around https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasion_of_Kievan_Rus%...

> Keith Flint, singer on hits like ‘Firestarter’ for British electro-pop pioneers The Prodigy, has died aged 49

CNN shows again its ignorance, The Prodigy is not techno and not electro-pop.

While this may be true, I find the problem you are describing to be much worse for immigrants (of every colour and race) who speak with thick accent. https://qz.com/624335/the-reason-you-discriminate-against-fo...

It's sad to see such xenophobic comments on HN. Please stop blaming every Russian for what Putin and his friends do.