Yakovlev

MEMORANDUM **

Aleksandr Olegovich Yakovlev, a native and citizen of Russia, petitions pro se for review from the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order summarily affirming an immigration judge’s (“U”) denial of his application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture (“CAT”). We have jurisdiction pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review the IJ’s decision for substantial evidence, see Lata v. INS, 204 F.3d 1241, 1244 (9th Cir.2000), and we deny the petition.

Substantial evidence supports the IJ’s conclusion that Yakovlev failed to establish past persecution or a well-founded fear of future persecution on account of an enumerated ground because Yakovlev has not shown that the beatings he allegedly suffered at the hands of Cossacks were perpetrated by agents of the government or by individuals the government was unable or unwilling to control. See Gormley v. Ashcroft, 364 F.3d 1172, 1177 (9th Cir.2004). In addition, the childhood incidents *921 Yakovlev described, as well as the workplace discrimination he and his fellow Baptists experienced, did not amount to persecution. See Nagoulko v. INS, 333 F.3d 1012, 1016-17 (9th…