>But in the West, Russia is typically seen as a deeply racist society and
>one that has grown more racist since 1991 ? As evidenced by incidents of
>anti-Semitism, public support for the war in Chechnya
The people who most support the war in Chechnya are the dark-skinned Muslims who live adjacent to Chechnya.
This equation of "Russian" with "ethnic Russian" is really stupid.
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