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Europa,

A pair of pudgy, hairy man’s hands draped over the back of an ornate chair; two gold rings; a gold watch on a bracelet a bit too tight for the wrist; amber cufflinks pulling together crisp white cuffs that also seem a touch tight. Everything in this picture connotes wealth and excess. To the Russian eye, the dark hair on the hands also connotes someone who is ethnically non-Russian: The hands might belong to a Jew, a Tartar, an Armenian or the representative of any number of other ethnic groups that, according to stereotype, have dark hair.

This picture of a generic Shylock appeared on Oct.…  Seguir leyendo »

Europa,

Last Tuesday after breakfast, I went to a post office in downtown Moscow to put my name on a Russian government blacklist.

According to a law that took effect in August, all Russians living within the country’s borders who hold foreign passports or permanent residence permits of other nations were required to register with the Federal Migration Service (F.M.S.) by Oct. 4. (Dual citizens residing outside of Russia were required to register upon their next visit.) Concealing another citizenship would result in a fine of up to 200,000 rubles (over $5,000), or up to 400 hours of community service. The deadline has now come and gone, and the F.M.S.…  Seguir leyendo »

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As the opening of next month's Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, approaches, the controversies surrounding the games seem to accumulate by the day.

These have included criticism of Russia's human rights record, particularly its treatment of homosexuals, its environmental policies and, with the recent suicide bombings in Volgograd, its anti-terrorism actions and strategy in the Caucasus.

Calls to boycott the games and other international pressure have led Russia to release high-profile dissidents including Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the ex-oil tycoon, and members of the punk band Pussy Riot.

Yet for all the heat generated in these controversies, one of the most significant issues of all surrounding the Olympics has been nearly ignored: Recognition of the indigenous people of Sochi, the Circassians.…  Seguir leyendo »

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Difficile mémoire russe… Les violences du samedi 11 décembre sur la place du Manège, au centre historique de Moscou, sont venues rappeler que la Russie d’aujourd’hui a ses problèmes d’immigrés, comme le reste de l’Europe, en partie hérités de son empire, et qu’elle est loin d’être un pays à l’encéphalogramme social plat. C’est peut-être du problème national que partira l’étincelle qu’on peut prévoir.

«La Russie aux Russes» est un slogan impossible dans un pays qui est multiracial depuis son berceau: peuples de la steppe intégrés dans le creuset moscovite, Tatares vaincus mais intégrés depuis le XVIe siècle, peuples du Caucase arrimés à l’empire depuis la fin du XVIIIe et les guerres coloniales du XIXe.…  Seguir leyendo »

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By Masha Lipman, editor of the Carnegie Moscow Center's Pro et Contra journal, writes a monthly column for The Post (THE WASHINGTON POST, 21/10/06):

A Georgian migrant worker died at a Moscow airport this week while awaiting deportation. Tengiz Togonidze, 48, had asthma and was gasping for breath, but he was reportedly denied permission to get some fresh air either during the five days he was held in a detention center or afterward, during the trip to the airport, which took many hours. He was one of some 700 ethnic Georgians deported over the past three weeks as the government's anti-Georgia policies turned into a campaign of harassment of Georgians in Russia.…  Seguir leyendo »