Recent Posts Tagged With 'ethnicity race nationality'

• Video: From Russia with Hate

  Posted on Tuesday August 18th, 2009 at 11:26 in immigration, extremism, nationalism, neo-nazism, ethnicity race nationality

• An American Physicist in Tuva

  Posted on Monday August 17th, 2009 at 15:22 in history, Soviet Union, us-russia, ethnicity race nationality

  Richard Feynman, famous American physicist, atom bomb maker, father of nanotechnology, and Tuva lover.  Feynman discovered the remote region and its nomadic people from stamp collecting during the dark days of the Cold War.  Feynman began a long co...

• “Volgograd Obama” Declares “Let the people decide!”

  Posted on Thursday July 30th, 2009 at 13:21 in russian politics, united russia, ethnicity race nationality

  My post about Joachim Crima, the so-called “Volgograd Obama,” has received a lot of traffic thanks to Joshua Keating’s link to it at Foreign Policy. So given the interest in this Russian political novelty, I figured I’d do an ...

• Volgograd Obama

  Posted on Wednesday July 22nd, 2009 at 11:53 in russian politics, ethnicity race nationality

  They’re calling him the “Volgograd Obama.”  Joachim Crima, 37, native of Guinea-Bissau, former watermelon seller, and graduate of Volgograd Pedagogical University has thrown his hat into the region’s municipal election.  If ...

• Anti-Immigrant Leader Belov Sentenced

  Posted on Thursday April 30th, 2009 at 20:01 in immigration, extremism, ethnicity race nationality

  Anti-racist activists finally have a reason to mildly celebrate.  Today, Russian xenophobe Aleksandr Belov was sentenced to six months in a penal colony for violating Article 282 of the Russian Criminal Code (”Inciting hate and enmity as well ...

• Boris Kagarlitsky on Moldova

  Posted on Wednesday April 8th, 2009 at 15:22 in youth, resistance, colored revolutions, ethnicity race nationality, "near abroad"

• Moldova Between Red and Brown, Young and Old

  Posted on Wednesday April 8th, 2009 at 11:46 in youth, resistance, colored revolutions, ethnicity race nationality, "near abroad"

  I don’t claim much knowledge on the intricacies of the explosive situation in Moldova.  For anyone who has been asleep the last few days, Moldovan students are attempting their own “colored revolution.”  On Tuesday, over 10,000 st...

• Running from Russia to . . . Poland

  Posted on Thursday March 26th, 2009 at 11:53 in immigration, human rights, ethnicity race nationality, "near abroad"

  Citizens of the Russian Federation comprise of the third highest number of asylum seekers according to statistics complied by the UN Refugee Agency. The top country of origin of asylum applicants in 2008 was Iraq (40,500, down 10 percent from 45,100 ...

• Russia’s Racial Marketing

  Posted on Saturday March 21st, 2009 at 13:26 in US Politics, us-russia, ethnicity race nationality

  Are the ads racist?  Some think so.  The use of Barack Obama visage has become a marketing hit in Russia, generating cries of racism.  The charges relate to three ads featuring Obama. The Times of India reports: Obama ice cream, anyone? Chocolate-...

• The Rising Russian Right

  Posted on Sunday February 8th, 2009 at 13:42 in youth, immigration, extremism, ethnicity race nationality

  I’m normally not a big fan of the Guardian’s Luke Harding, but I think he deserves kudos for his latest article, “Putin’s Worst Nightmare.” Harding opens with the chilling and brutal murder of Karen Abramian, who was sta...

• Russian “Ultra-Nationalism” on the Rise

  Posted on Wednesday September 10th, 2008 at 10:10 in extremism, nationalism, ethnicity race nationality

• South Ossetia and Georgia Sling Genocidal Mud

  Posted on Friday September 5th, 2008 at 12:14 in human rights, ethnicity race nationality, georgian war

  As I noted the other day, Teimuraz Khugaev, head prosecutor for the Ossetian government, announced that 1692 Ossetians were killed in the Georgian assault last month.  Now the Public Commission on the Investigation of War Crimes in South Ossetia has...

• Recommended Reading

  Posted on Tuesday April 22nd, 2008 at 13:57 in book reviews, Academia, great terror, ethnicity race nationality, "cold war"

  Two of my favorite magazines, the London Review of Books and Vanity Fair, have two must read articles on Russia in their recent additions. Vanity Fair’s annual “Green Issue” is full of amazing articles, particularly Phillippe Sands...

• The Right but not the Desire to Return

  Posted on Friday April 4th, 2008 at 13:54 in immigration, russian diaspora, ethnicity race nationality

  Russia and Israel have a rather interesting relationship.  Political relations between the countries have been cool for decades, but the increase of Russian immigration and travel to the Jewish nation has inevitably complicated the two nation’...