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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...
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?
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)
I believe it is still illegal 'hypothetically', just like hypothetically Russia has elections.
> They think it's their strength
Yeah, the delusion is serious
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.
How is this different than in other places in Europe
BTW It's pretty ridiculous that American censorship makes it impossible to even call out and criticize racism like in the case of OP.