There are 48 comments so far to a post on xenophobia and violence in Russia [1], over at Sean's Russia Blog. One commenter writes: “It seems to me that the Kremlin gave a green light to the ‘ultra-nationlist’ tendencies of some ethnic Russians by the way it dealt with Georgia and Estonia […]. If the gov’t is telling you its ok to despise people from these Georgia and Estonia, why stop there? Why not lump all foreigners together and treat them like scum.”
Russia: Xenophobia and Violence
· Written by Veronica Khokhlova
Categories: Central Asia & Caucasus, Eastern & Central Europe, Estonia, Georgia, Russia, Elections, Ethnicity & Race, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, International Relations, Politics, War & Conflict