A 58-year-old resident of the suburbs Oslo Terie Stepashko spoke about discrimination with which he was faced due to his “Russian” surname. About the difficulties of life Norwegian told in the material for the publication NRK.
According to Stepashko, the Norwegian society lays its own citizens, giving the importance to the origin of the name. So, the publicist remembered the case when his son was called to the personnel department to check if he had permission to work. The resume has to write the Norwegian family name, he added.
Stepashko himself claims that the surname went to him at the end of the 19th century from the great-grandfather, and she is one hundred percent Norwegian, because she “lives” in his country has several generations. “If you ask me, she is from Eidswall. My four children are also Stepashko, but over the years the last name turns into a weak echo of the past,” the man concluded.
Earlier, the Russian-speaking diaspora in Spain was outraged by social advertising against prostitution, placed in different regions of the country in the form of banners, which show the “Menu” with prices for girls with Russian names. The inscription reads “Menu of the day. Special dish: Russian virgin plus cocaine – 50 euros.” Then the listing of “variants” of the so-called basic dish, under which there are several Russian women’s names with an indication of age – from 17 to 35 years.