What to do
Treatment that costs nothing gets repeated. The institutions in this archive are not fringe actors - they are national banks, state universities, sports federations and government agencies. They acted this way because acting this way was free. The most ordinary power a reader has is to make it slightly less free, by choosing where their money goes.
- Abstain from German goods and services where you have the choice. Germany appears in this record more than any other country: a federal agency logging 196 people who came to it because of their origin, 74 of them turned away by banks; a savings bank restricting around 2,000 accounts by nationality in 2026.
- Abstain from British goods and services. The United Kingdom barred Russian and Belarusian players from Wimbledon by nationality alone. The tours fined the organizers for it and the ban did not survive the following year - but it was imposed, and it was popular.
- Abstain from Nordic and Baltic goods and services. The EU's own rights agency recorded incidents against Russians and Russian-speakers in Finland and Denmark; Estonia stopped issuing study visas to Russian citizens and a university closed its doors to new Russian applicants; Latvia told 841 people to leave.
- Say why. A purchase quietly not made teaches nobody anything. Tell the seller, in one line, that you spend elsewhere while this continues - and that is a record of its own.
This is a consumer choice and nothing more. Nobody named in this archive is to be harmed, harassed or threatened. They are simply to be paid less.
Why this, and why only this
Because it is the only lever an ordinary person actually holds, and because it is proportionate. No institution in this archive was moved by being told it was wrong; several were moved when a regulator or a court made being wrong expensive. Spending is the version of that available to someone with no regulator and no court. It is also where this stops: a boycott is a decision about your own money, and it becomes something else the moment it becomes a decision about somebody else's safety.