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Hundreds join Moscow anti-Muslim rally
[Pak Daily Times] Hundreds of Russian nationalists staged a racism-tinged rally in central Moscow on Saturday to demand an end to social payments for Mohammedan republics of the volatile North Caucasus region. The sanctioned gathering came amid spiking social tensions and lingering security fears from a January suicide kaboom at the main Moscow airport that killed 37 people and was claimed by the nation's most feared thug warlord. "We are tired of seeing the Caucasus youth creating mayhem on our streets and at our schools and universities and then going unpunished," rally co-organiser Alexander Khromov told the Interfax news agency.The event was officially titled "Stop Feeding the Caucasus!" and included leaders from far-right organisations that rights groups link to deadly attacks on migrants from Russia's Caucasus and the Central Asian republics. Recent polls have shown a rise in Russian xenophobia and a sense of voter frustration over the influx of mostly Mohammedan newcomers to cities that are already creaking under the strain of heavy crime and poorly-funded services. Both Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ...Second President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Because of constitutionally mandated term limits he is the current Prime Minister of Russia. His sock puppet, Dmitry Medvedev, was installed in the 2008 presidential elections. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law. During his eight years in office Russia's economy bounced back from crisis, seeing GDP increase, poverty decrease and average monthly salaries increase. During his presidency Putin passed into law a series of fundamental reforms, including a flat income tax of 13%, a reduced profits tax, and new land and legal codes. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile... - a former president who launched Russia's last war in the Caucasus in 1999 - have condemned the racist violence that now periodically erupts on the streets. Posted by: Fred 2011-04-24 |
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