Young Russian students accidentally meet Reagan in Moscow.
Posted on 02/02/2011 8:51:17 PM PST by NoLibZone
Russian students stranded in Cairo have joined a stick-wielding militia that is guarding neighborhoods from looters as political protests in Egypt intensify, a news report said Tuesday.
Some 140 Russians, most of them natives of the Volga Federal District studying at the Islamic Al-Azhar University, are awaiting evacuation from the country, Rusnovosti.ru said.
Meanwhile, they joined civil patrols organized by locals, Ufa-born Daniyar Khuzhakhmetov said.
“We have a good relationship with local residents. If they protect us at night, we should protect them as well,” Khuzhakhmetov was quoted as saying.
There are 75,000 Russians in Egypt, including about 30,000 property owners who live there, the Federal Tourism Agency said Tuesday, Interfax reported.
Only 10 percent of Russian tourists have sought evacuation, with the rest refusing to cut their vacations short at Red Sea resort towns untouched by the turmoil in northern Egypt, the report said, citing the Sports, Tourism and Youth Politics Ministry.
But tour operators who allow tourists to fly to Egypt may face criminal prosecution in Russia, the ministry said.
Protests against the rule of Egypt's authoritarian leader, Hosni Mubarak, started last week. More than 250,000 people rallied in downtown Cairo on Tuesday in response to a call for a rally of 1 million protesters to demand his ouster.
Young Russian students accidentally meet Reagan in Moscow.
The Russians and the Egyptians have had a relationship for centuries.
Nice to see the Russians are able to figure out who the (relatively) good guys are in this case. Too bad it’s over Obama’s head to do the same.
And probably their new best buds ...
The Russians and the Egyptians have a relationship that date back to Czar Ivan the IV.
Actually, it was the Soviets who built them the Aswan High dam.
They want their arms market back.
Yea, but we rooted the Russians out with our regular subsidies to Egypt once the Russians went broke trying to keep up with Reagan’s defense spending.
I suspect these are "Russians" by nationality rather than ethnicity, if you know what I mean. Certainly the "students" would all be Muslim Tatars and Chechens.
Total number of cities and towns on the territory of Volga Federal District is 191. About 68% of the population are Russians, 13% - Tatars, 4,6% - Chuvash, 4,3% - Bashkirs, 2,1% - Mordva, 1,8% - Udmurts, 1,6% - Mari, 1,3% - Ukrainians.
Volga Federal District includes the following 14 federal subjects of Russian Federation:
* Bashkortostan republic
* Chuvashia republic
* Kirov oblast
* Mari El republic
* Mordovia republic
* Nizhegorodskaya oblast
* Orenburg oblast
* Penza oblast
* Perm krai
* Samara oblast
* Saratov oblast
* Tatarstan republic
* Udmurt republic
* Ulyanovsk oblast
The largest cities of Volga Federal District are:
* Sterlitamak
* Ufa Region Capital
* Cheboksary Region Capital
* Kirov Region Capital
* Yoshkar-Ola Region Capital
* Saransk Region Capital
* Arzamas
* Dzerzhinsk
* Nizhny Novgorod Region Capital
* Orenburg Region Capital
* Orsk
* Penza Region Capital
* Perm Region Capital
* Samara Region Capital
* Tolyatti
* Saratov Region Capital
* Kazan Region Capital
* Naberezhnye Chelny
* Izhevsk Region Capital
* Ulyanovsk Region Capital
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