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Thread ID: 19680 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2005-08-16
2005-08-16 19:57 | User Profile
Hate crime growing in Russia
AP in Moscow Tuesday August 16, 2005 The Guardian
Racism and xenophobia are growing at an alarming rate in Russia, civil rights groups said yesterday, fuelled by economic hardship and the government's failure to come up with a plan for reducing ethnic tensions.
An EU-funded study by the Moscow Bureau of Human Rights said 10 people had been killed and another 200 victimised as a result of hate crime in the first half of 2005. The number of fatal attacks was nearly three times higher than last year.
Hate crime growing in Russia
AP in Moscow Tuesday August 16, 2005 The Guardian
Racism and xenophobia are growing at an alarming rate in Russia, civil rights groups said yesterday, fuelled by economic hardship and the government's failure to come up with a plan for reducing ethnic tensions.
An EU-funded study by the Moscow Bureau of Human Rights said 10 people had been killed and another 200 victimised as a result of hate crime in the first half of 2005. The number of fatal attacks was nearly three times higher than last year.
Article continues A nationwide opinion poll, meanwhile, found that 58% of respondents either fully or partially supported the concept "Russia for Russians". A similar poll last year found 53% held that view.
Growing extremist sentiments are rooted in Russia's economic problems and the Soviet collapse, which sent thousands of migrants from poorer former republics to Russia seeking jobs. Experts also accused political parties of openly using racially tinged messages to appeal to voters sceptical of foreigners.
[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1549672,00.html[/url]
2005-08-16 20:24 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]Hate crime growing in Russia A nationwide opinion poll, meanwhile, found that 58% of respondents either fully or partially supported the concept "Russia for Russians". A similar poll last year found 53% held that view. [/QUOTE]
Oh the horror...Russia for Russians, Britian for the British, what a concept!
2005-08-16 20:39 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]A nationwide opinion poll, meanwhile, found that 58% of respondents either fully or partially supported the concept "Russia for Russians". A similar poll last year found 53% held that view.
Growing extremist sentiments are rooted in Russia's economic problems and the Soviet collapse, which sent thousands of migrants from poorer former republics to Russia seeking jobs. Experts also accused political parties of openly using racially tinged messages to appeal to voters sceptical of foreigners.
[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1549672,00.html[/url][/QUOTE]
It's always the "economic problems" that cause "extremist sentiments" which exacerbate ethnic tensions. Please.
Couldn't be that White Russians are smart enough (58% and counting) to nip a problem in the bud before their country resembles some of their more "prosperous" neighbors in Western Euorpe?? Maybe, just maybe, the Russians want what's best for Russians??
Also, notice how the skeptic countries of USIsrael's disastrous war on Iraq typically get smeared in US-UK-Israeli publications?? Chirac & France, Schroeder & Germany and of course Putin & Russia all have too many "extremists" and "xenophobes" within their midst and aren't doing enough to stop it??
Need I say more?
2005-08-17 02:18 | User Profile
With titles like that, I feel the love growing in Russia for Russians. Ah, love yourself, ignore whining of your enemies. How more simpler can it be? :smoke:
I will be satisfied with the love only when duskies become afraid to come to Moscow and commit crimes in disproportionate numbers, like they do now. Fair enough, considering that no Russians go in their lands to live, afraid for their lives, let alone go there to annoy the locals with crime waves.
2005-08-28 04:22 | User Profile
Do you consider the new Russia part of Europe?
Or seperate?
Would you want it to be so. Or otherwise?
Mentzer