Staunton, May 17 Even though the issue of relations between Russians and migrant workers has largely disappeared from the Moscow media because of the Ukrainian crisis, it has not gone away and indeed may be more explosive than it was precisely because of the kind of violence that has taken place in eastern Ukraine. In […]
A Russian court has sentenced a protester to mandatory psychiatric treatment in a case that has been widely criticized by human rights watchdogs. Mikhail Kosenko, who has been voluntarily seeking mental-health treatment for much of his life and is a productive member of society, was accused of assaulting a police officer during the Bolotnaya riots […]
Yesterday, I wrote about how the unrest in Pugachev, where anti-Chechen riots broke out following the murder of a local paratrooper, was the result of the weak migration regime that has allowed ethnic resentments to grow unhindered. Ethnic tension, however, are only part of the puzzle. The bigger picture comprises the ineffective way in which […]
