Migrants arrested in Moscow raids

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Police in Russia have arrested more than 1,200 people in a raid targeting migrants after major riots in Moscow.
The "preventative raid" targeted workers at a vegetable warehouse, which was attacked by demonstrators on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported.
Angry protesters overran the market searching for migrant workers.
The rioting began during a protest over the death of an ethnic Russian man on Thursday allegedly by a Muslim migrant from the North Caucasus.
Ethnic Russian Yegor Shcherbakov, 25, was killed in front of his girlfriend in the capital's Biryulyovo district.
Police have released a security camera photo of the suspect, but have not identified him.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/70462000/jpg/_70462391_019638826-1.jpg Protesters targeted migrants, chanting "Russia for the Russians"

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/70462000/jpg/_70462387_019636706-1.jpg The protesters attacked a vegetable market where migrants work, leaving produce smashed in their wake

Media said the image suggested the man was of "non-Slavic appearance", leading nationalists to conclude the killer was a Muslim migrant from the Russian North Caucasus.
Some 380 people were detained during the rioting that began on Sunday, but most have been released without charge.
It is unclear what charges, if any, those detained in Monday's raid against migrants in the vegetable warehouse would face, RIA Novosti reported. Police were quoted as saying that they were investigating "involvement in criminal activity", without elaborating.
The issue of immigration and internal migration was one of the main issues in Moscow's recent mayoral election won by Sergei Sobyanin.
The BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow says the violence reflects Russian nationalism, and the growing tension between ethnic Russians and migrants from the Caucasus region and from former Soviet republics.

(BBC News - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24520888)

[Flying Purple People Eater]

Oh lovely, Russian fascists going on kneejerk pogroms. Of course if someone who is 'slavic' commits a murder, then it's just a murder. BUT, if that person happens to be your ethnicity, then watch out; because you belong to the same ethnicity as him/her (ergo you look slightly like him/her) and thus IT'S YOUR FAULT TOO because you are the same ethnicity and therefore possess an alien hive-mind that plans to overthrow the christian white motherland! I honestly wonder whether these people are actually so clinically insane as to believe this mythological fearmongering racist bile or if it's just the result of subsequent generations of frequent inbreeding.


Nationalism needs to be dissected, disemboweled and bombed with napalm, ethnic nationalism being the most filthy individual in particular.



I remember reading an article by a Somali man who lived in Russia for a spell, and his experience was downright absurd. Everywhere he went, policemen would angrily and aggressively confront him in the street asking for papers, and his Chechen friend - who has whiter skin than the majority of the population of western Europe - was consistently called a 'black' and a 'negro' during their stay in the capital.

[erupt]

Is there any significant opposition that can stand up against these people?

Just more evidence of the rise of fascism in Russia in my opinion.

[tachosomoza]

I remember reading an article by a Somali man who lived in Russia for a spell, and his experience was downright absurd. Everywhere he went, policemen would angrily and aggressively confront him in the street asking for papers, and his Chechen friend - who has whiter skin than the majority of the population of western Europe - was consistently called a 'black' and a 'negro' during their stay in the capital.

I remember reading that Russians call people from the Caucasus 'blacks' because of their hair color. But yeah, Russia is in a pitiful, sad state right now. Lenin spins in his tomb.