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Russia's Race Riots: Are Police Turning a Blind Eye?
The Time ^ | Dec 15, 2010 | Simon Shuster

Posted on 12/15/2010 4:29:38 AM PST by cunning_fish

Around dusk on Dec. 11, Moscow's police chief, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, arrived at the scene of a race riot that his troops had failed to quell. Mobs of skinheads had savagely beaten dozens of passersby that afternoon in the streets and on the subway, leaving blood on the ground and swastikas scrawled on the walls across from the Kremlin gates. As Kolokoltsev stood there, thousands of rioters were still chanting racist slogans and throwing bottles and flares at his men. He decided it was time to negotiate. For a police force not known for being shy with its truncheons, this was an unprecedented move, and it has solidified the growing belief among the Russian public that the authorities are either unable or unwilling to stop the recent wave of violence being perpetrated by the country's nationalists. "It was basically admitting defeat," says Evgeny Valyaev, the shaven-headed leader of supremacist group Russky Obraz, whose members took part in Saturday's riots. "They shouldn't have provoked us. That was their mistake. So Kolokoltsev was forced to negotiate with a man in a black mask," he told TIME in an interview Monday.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: europe; illegals; imigration; immigration; islam; russia
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To: Nowhere Man

Where would I go? Maybe a quaint village in Switzerland or Czech or Austria. Even if TSHTF in Europe, I think those areas will stay the same, at least for the most part.

But if states broke away, like Texas for instance, that’s where I’d definitely prefer to be.


21 posted on 12/15/2010 8:58:54 PM PST by MrInvisible
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To: MrInvisible
Where would I go? Maybe a quaint village in Switzerland or Czech or Austria. Even if TSHTF in Europe, I think those areas will stay the same, at least for the most part.

But if states broke away, like Texas for instance, that’s where I’d definitely prefer to be.


Poland might not be bad either. I was just curious on where some would run to if they had to bail out. Texas wouldn't be a bad place if there was a breakup.
22 posted on 12/17/2010 8:33:06 PM PST by Nowhere Man (General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
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To: cunning_fish

Vague story, no details, racist skinheads...

No, probably a bunch of fed up white guys beating on muslims that had raped some girls in town. Probably a more accurate story line.


23 posted on 12/17/2010 8:36:52 PM PST by Professional
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