--- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
> CB: BB is sort of a new type of defector.
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Boris Abramovich kind of reminds me of the little freak from the Leprechaun movies. He's a common thug. I suspect the Brits would extradite him if they could. He must be an embarrassmant for them.
Western Orientalist fantasies aside, ethnic Russian nationalism is and had always been a very weak movement, as one would expect for a phantasmagorically multiethnic empire/federation that really it would be more accurate to call the Eurasian Federation. It was feared by both the Tsars and the Soviets. If a Russian nationalist government ever actually got into power, the first thing it would do is expel the North Caucasus from the Federation. And it would be VERY proactive in dealing with the rights of ethnic Russians in the Baltic States, Ukraine, and northern Kazakhstan.
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