The plan's premise is simple. Extremist feeling is very strong in Russia. Ethnic enmity is manifested not only in armed conflicts but also on the most basic everyday level. Only by deliberately turning a blind eye can you fail to see that xenophobia and anti-Semitism are still around and that our fellow citizens, some aloud and some under their breath, are eagerly cursing all Caucasians, anyone from Central Asia, the Chinese, Vietnamese and Ukrainians. However, this is a worldwide problem.
Newspapers write increasingly often about nationalist feeling in Europe.
And even America, try though it might, only appears politically correct. Whereas the West is trying to deal with this somehow, in Russia everything is just drifting along. In theory the current campaign should bring about some sort of change. The programme was first announced in May at a designers' forum in Sochi. In early September exhibits of posters were dispatched to Russian cities.