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2002/8/2-3 [Politics/Foreign/Asia/China] UID:25474 Activity:high
8/2     http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?g=events/wl/073102skate&a=&tmpl=sl&ns=0&l=1&e=1&a=0
        Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov?  Russian mob?  This guy looks Chinese to me.
        \_ oh god.  Please don't tell me that the russian mob is full of
           ethnic chinese gangs.  We already have enough ethnic chinese thugs
           in southeast asia.
           \_ Russia aka The Former Soviet Union goes all the way east to the
              Pacific.  Guess what ethnicity the people in the eastern part
              of the TFS belong to?
        \_ perhaps he is from Siberia?
           \_ you go to Cal?  Please, quit now.
           \_ Uzbekistan.
           \_ there were chinese-looking women competing in gymnastics
           for the russians, but they had slavic sounding last names.
           I always assumed they were from Siberia.  Perhaps they were
           from Uzbekistan like Alimzhan.
           \_ ok, now i'm curious.  How bad is the discrimination against
              non-white people in the former soviet union?
              \_ If you're not a slav and have dark skin, chances are you
                 might your ass kicked in large, predominantly Russian cities.
                 Just some random articles found on google:
                 http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/5546-5.cfm
                 http://lists.partners-intl.net/pipermail/neww-rights/2001-April/000495.html
                 http://www.therussianissues.com/topics/67/02/04/19/15258.html
        \_ http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/01/sports/othersports/01SKAT.html
        \_ Genghis Khan and the mongol hordes spread their seed all across
           Russia.
                \_ mmhehehmm, you said seed.
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On the eve of Vladimir Putin's upcoming visit to the United States, there is a troubling new phenomenon developing in the Russian capital. A series of mass skinhead attacks against Muslims, attacks the Russian press are openly calling "pogroms," has disturbed the city in the past two weeks, claiming three lives and prompting more than 300 arrests. The incidents are among the most serious threats to social order to hit the capital during Putin's reign, and also may tarnish the reputation of America's ally in the Afghan war--particularly as some of the attacks were directed specifically at Afghans. The worst of the pogroms occurred on October 30, in Moscow's southern Tsaritsino region, where a crowd of more than 300 shaven-headed teenagers--apparently fans of the soccer team Lokomotiv--attacked dark-skinned people outside a street market. When police intervened, part of the crowd dispersed and traveled by subway to the nearby Kakhovskaya region, where they descended upon the hotel Sevastopol and attacked some two dozen Afghan residents, among others, as they came in and out of the building. There is a small Afghan population in Moscow, mainly ethnic Afghans who were born and raised in ex-Soviet territories bordering Afghanistan: Kirgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan. Some are immigrants from the days of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Many are migrant shuttle-traders who live in hotels, and as such share in the unpopularity experienced by other non-Russian preyezhiye (arrivals) who inhabit Russia's street markets. Imposing crowds of teenage soccer fans are nothing new in Moscow. In the past few years a curious synthesis of the soccer hooligan and skinhead movements has been observed steadily gaining strength in the city. 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THIS IS LIKELY TO MAKE THESE GROUPS BELIEVE THEIR ACTIONS ARE IN LINE WITH THE GOVERNMENT'S PLANS FOR BOOSTING PATRIOTISM. THESE NATIONALIST EXTREMISTS ARE TARGETING JEWS, BLACKS, AND OTHER MINORITIES ACROSS RUSSIA. About twenty teenagers, armed with sticks, clubs, and chains, attacked a school which is called "Armenian" in the district: its students are mostly from Armenian families, they have classes in Armenian language and literature. The thugs broke the windows of the school and street lamps in the school yard; The police dispersed the thugs, but - amazingly - no one was detained. Several dozen Russian neo-nazi groups appeared in Moscow in the early 1990s. At first they were rather quiet: rambled around downtown incredibly proud of themselves for being so advanced in the latest western fashion. In early 1994 the number of Moscow neo-nazis increased up to several hundred over just two months, directly due to the events of October 1993. 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