Talk:Racism in Russia

message: People who wrote this simply don't have any idea about the actual subject. Everything written here is what the Western Rusophobic (they all are, try BBC.com: to an uneducated person it will seems Russia is wrose than hell itself) media tells you. Now, I can't, of course, deny that racism in Russia exists, as it does in all other countries. But this very article is simply wrong. Please don't call me names, I am not a fanatical patriot or whatever and I very much support the West. I rather simply want this article to be as unbiased as possible, making corrections to all the points. So, for example, take skinheads. Do you really think all Russian males are skinheads, everyone kills black people etc.? Of course not, we - Russians - are afrain of them as much as blacks are. It is just a very undesireble element of our society and it is very much condemned. But this article doesn't mention it. The reader will get the feeling that any foreigner here will be killed the second he walks out of the airport, then ritually burned etc. 
Ok, I can go on forever. Basically, my point is simple: to every point against there should be a point pro. Russians as people are not racist. We love and care for everyone. If a foreigner walks into a Siberian village, the people there will give him everything and do everything to make him feel good. There are people who are racist, but why, you know, label them as the whole Russian population? 
End. 
I agree. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1264/is_n4_v20/ai_7756645
This links to an account of an African girl in the Soviet Union. Everything I research indicates biast information is aimed at against Russia sometimes.
Danil
218.111.22.180
:: I took out the entire first paragraph as it completely unsabstantiated by any citation of any actual statements from LDPR and DPNI that would expose them as racist. They are nationalistic, and oppose illegal immigration, but there is nothing racist about it. This section was written by someone who likes to make up facts, rather then report them. Someone on the left, as usual.
: I found this last comment (regarding 'the left') to be completely unnecessary. We can discuss this respectfully and objectively without insulting eachother personally, or making gross generalizations. Alexis 09:24, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I find it ridiculous to inovoke "Movement against illegal immigration" as a society for segregation. The whole problem with illegal immigrants is that they are way far from the best representatives of the ethnicity. And the same was 30 year ago: Georgians I've seen in Tbilisi and I've seen in Minsk markets are two different nations. mikka (t) 22:19, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Biased

message: The following phrase removed:
:In North America where Caucasian refers to light complexioned people indigenous to, or descended from Europe, word caucasophobia is used mostly by American White supremacists, White separatists and afrophobes to describe the "anti-white racism", which according to them, is existing in the American society.
This usage is unconfirmed in mainstream usage; even worse that the Russian version. Of course, you may stick the tail "phobia" to any word, but to be discussed in encyclopedia the usage may be well-established. mikka (t) 22:05, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  American usage

message: I was never in my life interested in Russian politics and almost never read any Russian news in last 7 years (except of sites with Russian anecdotes, like kulichki.ru). This discussion made me to do this, and I see there is a whole huge problem all over Russia: millions of immigrants from China, Korea, Vietnam. Compared to these, a handful of caucasians in Moscow is but a tiny sparkle in the overall flame. Does anyone want to write an article? mikka (t) 22:33, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illegal immigrants in Russia 

message: : You may get more traction if you include an extensive account of violent crimes, intimidations, rapes and kidnappings commited by the "immigrants" against native Russian population. Where is the expose on how "Caucasians" throw out poor pensioners out their own apartments and force them to hand it over, where is the account of drug dealing, where is the account of muslim illegals building mosques on top of Russian war dead cemeteries, where is the account of Russian citizens kidnapped for slavery going back to 1970's, where is the account of "Caucasians" setting up ethnic schools in Moscow where they force out ethnic Russian students, where is all the "good stuff"? The hypocrisy and racism of the left-wing fascists has reached stupendous proportions and must be, and will be, dealt with.
By the way Russia kicked Napoleon and Hitler, not the other way around as you claim.
Anyway, I will go away from this topic for two weeks. But after that please be prepared do defend each and every word in the article. You better go and read the rules of editing in wikipedia, not only how to fight with other editors. mikka (t) 17:09, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Threats towards me 

message: Survived: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Caucasophobia. mikka (t) 16:07, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: VfD

message: One more, rather strange factor, which played role, but I don't put it in the article. At least in my university foreign students were freed from study of the most dreaded discipline, "History of the CPSU"! This was usually the punchline: "they have money, they have our girls,... and they don't have to learn the "history of cpsu"!!!!"  or "... they don't have to study materials of twenty CPSU congresses!" Funny as it is, the phrase reflected the whole set of privileges for foreign students. mikka (t) 19:02, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Afrophobia: Soviet roots

message: The following urban legend circulated in nearly every university I visited during my student times (there were traditions to celebrate "Department Days", with invitations of students from the same department from universities in other cites). In student hostels, students lived 3-4 persons per room. It was obligatory to have one "Russian" per room with foreigners. A russian boy in a room with africans was very friendly: he showed them ways around, helped them with various everyday things. At a certain moment he noticed that Africans tell him to do more and more. Finally, when one of them told the Russian to brush his shoes, so the Russian told him to fuck off in his best russian mat. Next day the dean received a complaint... from Africans.... that this Russian refused to brush their shoes! It turned out that they thought the Russian student was assigned to be a house servant to them. mikka (t) 19:02, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Afrophobic urban legend

message: In English "Anti-national sentiment" sounds like POV opposing it. Not sure if this is different in Russian. --JWB 21:45, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page move 

message: The picture is is misleading and irrelevant for this article. The section talks about hostility towards Caucasians in Russian society. How does a picture of National-Bolsheviks - a fringe group with neo-Stalinist ideology (BTW it was neo-Stalinist in the past since the group changes its ideology every few years)- displaying picture of an ethnic Georgian KGB leader contributes anything to this  article is beyond me. Fisenko 18:50, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Russian nationalists waive communist flag. Communism as an ideology opposes nationalism. Obviously, they are not the smartest people on earth. This picture is exactly relevant and portays the reality. Please don not vandalize the artcle. Sosomk 10:45, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

text: The reality is that people do get attacked and killed by Russian nationalists. They don't like Nazi flags, because their ancestors probably died in the war with Nazis, but they like Commie flags. However, Communism opposes Nationalism as an ideology. So, my point is that they don't know what the heck are they doing and what they want. These kids are also nationalist who like Beria. I am Georgian and vast majority of Georgian people don't like Beria. If you are from the eastern Ukraine you might like him. Obviously, our opinions simply don't matter. Anti-Caucasian sentiment is basically a propaganda by some Russian politicians which is not planned well. That is what this picture shows. And calling ignorant somebody in an academical argument is not civil. Sosomk 06:30, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Stalin and Beria were real Russian nationalists and had nothing to do with their Georgian background. They did care or had any feelings for their country of birth. On contrary, they have contribute greatly in destruction of Georgian society, culture and loss of her territories. I guess, French should blame Corsicans for Napoleon and Austrians should be responsible for Hitler. Ldingley 16:27, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Fisenko, I don't want to argue with you. I respect your position and would rather work with you than arguing endlessly. Yes they were communists but they had nothing to do with Georgian character, culture or identity. So it’s pointless to mention about their Georgian background. My background is Scottish/Irish/English but i feel 100% Canadian. But as I said before, I rather work and co-operate with fellow Russians on Wiki articles. So let’s end this pointless discussion.  BTW can you please tell me about the history of the flag (yellow, black, white) ? Thanks Ldingley 17:35, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

text: I don't argue with you. You can be as Nationalist and proud as you want. Victory day of Russia is a holiday for Russians and not for everybody. One totalitarian government beat another one. However, I did loose my ancestors in the WWII, but the fake holiday like that is not celebrated in Georgia. Obviosly, it is a matter of opinion. Best Wishes from Georgia. Sosomk 10:50, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Those veteras are our citizens and we obviously care about them. However, that day is not celebrated in Georgia  just like in Russia like you said. It is just a fictional day and we don't have parades and we don't burn Hitler's pictures and don't do the crap like that. Sosomk 12:58, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neo-Bolshevik kids picture 

message: most statements of fact, as well as implied associated in this article lack sources.  In a few days time I will tag and then remove all unsourced info. Relevant policies: WP:V, WP:RS Dsol 12:43, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a lot of tags.  I realize there are some sources given, but with such controvertial material, each statement must be carefully sourced, and when the source is less than 100% authoritative, its identity must be made explicit in the statement of fact.  I will check the given sources to see which facts can be sourced.  After that time, though not sooner than 3 days hence, I will begin removing unsourced material.  Dsol 17:31, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool down here. Unless you have serious objections to some statements, tagging every second sentence is rather frivolous. In this way you can litter 80% of wikipedia. Unless you state reasonable doubts in truth of some phrases, destroying an article on a whim in 3 days is bad idea. Wikipedians have real life, you know, they are not going to jump thru your hoop right away. Even votes for deletion take 5 days. `'mikka (t) 21:13, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The agreed-upon criteria is verifiability and reliable sources or a statement can be removed, unless a statement is obvious.  If you think these policies are "frivolous" then go say so on the policy talk pages.  I have lived in Russia myself and none of the statements I tagged are obvious.  I have given much more than 3 days due to travel but soon will begin removing and rewriting. Dsol 06:13, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  sources 

message: The term "anti-national sentiment" makes no sense semantically and, consequently, does not convey the focus of this article, which is racism.  I've read that the purpose for changing the title from "Racism in Russia" was to allow for coverage of a broader topic; but the title "Xenophobia in Russia" will better accomplish that goal by using a well-known term to avoid confusion. 
Another concern of mine is that the article generally avoids the term "racism" (it only appears once in the prose).  What may seem like a minor issue of semantics is actually quite serious, because it conceals the fact that unadulterated racism and neo-Nazism exist in Russia, and that they have reached proportions far greater than in any other European country.
-- WGee 05:21, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Xenophobia/racism strongly disagreed. "Nationalism", "ethnic prejudices" may be. Please suggest other versions, but please don't move without consensus. The article "conceals" nothing. In wikipedia we avoid slapping strong words in main titles. Redirects are welcome. `'mikka 21:54, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  The article is clearly about racism and xenophobia. The title is an euphemism that IMO should not be tolerated: imagine someone calling Nazism an "anti-Jewish sentiment" (a nice little sentiment, ain't it?). There's no reason to be sentimental about racism: let's leave this to the racists. Lebatsnok 10:11, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title of article 

message: Things such as:
*13 killed in 2006 Moscow market bombing
*racist murderer Artur Ryno says he killed over 30, with 53 people killed and 460 injured in 2006  
Terrorism convictions:
*The Moscow Regional Court on April 10 sentenced two former defense industry workers to 18 and 19 years in prison for their role in the 2005 bombing of a Grozny-to-Moscow train, the Moscow Times reported on April 11. Mikhail Klevachyov was sentenced to 19 years and Vladimir Vlasov to 18 years in a maximum-security prison after being convicted on terrorism charges for planting a homemade bomb on train tracks in the Moscow region. Forty people were injured in the June 2005 blast. Investigators found nationalist books in the defendants’ apartments. 
And what article is about - "jokes"?
Also Nazbols are not REALLY racist. A picture of an actual Neo-Nazi would be so much better. --HanzoHattori 15:00, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  So outdated - now there are mass terrorist acts and profilic serial killers 

message: UN EXPERT WARNS OF RACIST AND XENOPHOBIC 'DYNAMIC' IN RUSSIA.
A United Nations expert on racism, Doudou Diene, told a meeting of the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council on June 11 that there is a "deep dynamic of racism and xenophobia in Russian society which articulates itself in the spread of racist crimes notably perpetrated by neo-Nazi groups," AFP reported. "The perpetuation of racist violence and xenophobia constitutes the most serious threat...to the democratic process in the Russian Federation," Diene said, adding that a "profound social and economic crisis" is feeding "the ideology of nationalism." AFP quoted Russia's delegate to the UN Human Rights Council, Valery Loshchinin, as calling Diene's report "partisan and politicized." Loshchinin added, "We don't claim to be perfect, but to speak of a social and economic crisis in Russia when the situation is stable is exaggerated." Aleksandr Brod, director of the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, told Interfax on June 5 that about 120 racially motivated attacks took place in Russia between January and May of this year, in which 31 people were killed and at least 120 injured. According to Brod, 21 people were killed and 42 injured in Moscow, three died and 19 were injured in St. Petersburg, and 22 were injured in Nizhegorod Oblast. Natives of Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, and African countries were the most frequent targets of such attacks. Brod said there has been a "sharp growth" in the number of racially motivated attacks in Russia over the last three years, with seven people killed and around 100 injured during the first half of 2004, 10 killed and 200 injured in the first half of 2005 and 17 killed and 130 injured in the first half of 2006. The daily "Vremya novostei" reported on May 28 that Artur Ryno, an 18-year-old student at an icon-painting school who was detained in mid-April on suspicion of murdering a 46-year-old Armenian, Karen Abramyan, in Moscow, told investigators that he and a friend -- Pavel Skachevsky, also 18 -- killed 37 people in racially motivated attacks since August 2006. JB
RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 11, No. 107, Part I, 12 June 2007
If anyone cares. --HanzoHattori 14:05, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Also

message: If there's no "anti-Russian sentiment" anymore (in the new trend in Wikipedia), I think this one should be changed accordingly back to Racism in Russia too. --HanzoHattori 11:00, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Racism in modern Russia is a good idea, you are right about the references! Mariah-Yulia 17:11, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentimentalism 

message: A lot of things missed. For example, bombing of the Moscow market (numerous fatalities) and the bombing of the train from Grozny, or the teenager Artur Ryno who told the police earlier this year he killed 37 people after arrested for one murder. 
The article is such a mess I don't even know if there's included this dormitory fire in which dozens of foreign students died. (Probably not.)
Recently (this week) the police arrested the group who executed some kidnapped people and videotaped it (there are also numerous articles related to the subject linked there, including one titled "Russian racism 'out of control'").
Also of course there is the police violence linked to the deadly attacks,  as in this incident. (Oddly enough, the police brutality article and category is seemingly about the USA & UK only.) Some of the crimes commited by the troops serving in Chechnya also appear to be racially-motivated. --HanzoHattori 12:00, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I would support this.  But a question remains: can the ethnically motivated attitudes and violence be classified as "racism"?Biophys 15:20, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

text: It seems that BBC journalists and Amnesty International do consider this as "racism". See Racist attacks that stain Russia, By James Rodgers, BBC News, Russian racism 'out of control', and Russian Federation. Violent racism out of control. However, it would be probably better to rename this article as Xenophobia and racism in modern Russia.Biophys 17:16, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

text: "In this Convention, the term "racial discrimination" shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life."  UN International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, NEW YORK 7 March 1966Biophys 17:22, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite - comment and some proposals 

message: I've nominated this article to be checked for neutrality, because it makes Russians seem bad and paints the minorities as the victim, mentions nothing about immigrants' racism against Russians.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Koliak2991 (talk • contribs) 01:16, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

message: There is a section in the article that briefly mentions the beheading of a Tajik and a Dagestani, saying that it was perpetrated by "white Christian Russians". I am not white, nor Christian, nor Russian yet I found this extremely offensive.  Also, it shouldn't be in the article.  Here's why:
1. the use of the word "white": People from the Caucuses (regardless of whatever nonsense skinheads or a narrow-minded Russian nationalists spew, or any attempt to prove the contrary) are by and large white.  Dagestanis are white.  Period.  End of discussion.  This is a white-on-white attack, though, admittedly, motivated by ethnic differences (not racial).  That's first.
2. Second, "Christian": Wow, did the writer of this section know the perpetrators so well that he knows what beliefs they hold? Did the perpetrators wear a cross? Is there at least SOME evidence showing that they're Christian? No.  In fact, neo-Nazis tend to be anti-Christian.  Slavic neo-Nazist are either atheist/agnostic or "pagan", mostly Slavic pagan.  They see Christian teachings contradicting the basis of Nazism.  This leads me to another point - the use of the word "Russian".
3. There is no concrete evidence that it was done by "White Christian Russians".  The perpetrators wore masks, and their faces was never revealed.  In fact, it is quite possible that the beheading, whether real or not, was done by a "caucasian" to put Russians in bad light.  However, I can't vouch for the veracity of this statement.  I saw the video (a simple google search will show you), and trust me, there is no way this was fake.  But my only concern here is that there is concrete proof that the beheading was carried out by a Russian.  
Therefore, I am changing it to "alleged neo-Nazis", which is COMPLETELY different from "White Christian Russians".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.212.72.104 (talk) 06:38, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand that the intentions are good, but one can only refer to native Caucasians as white to the same extent as, say, to Turks or to Palestinians. --Humanophage (talk) 01:30, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  i agree, i did further research on it and i figured that many of them are not 'white' even in the Western sense of the world. HOWEVER, some of them are indeed white, check this site out: http://robertlindsay.blogspot.com/2007/08/are-dagestanis-and-tajiks-white.html (it's a blog, so not quite 'citable', but regardless, there are some interesting information there)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.212.72.104 (talk) 09:43, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

text: No, that is not "political" but rather "ethnic" hatred. They would attack an African with a greater probability than Ilham Aliyev, but the latter is a possible target too. Yes, this is all absurd.Biophys (talk) 18:58, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

text: That Caucasians are actually darker than Russians on average is even questionable. Granted, Armenians and Azerbaijanis are, and Georgians maybe but not by much. But there are some very pale Caucasians (especially in the North Caucasus) and some rather tan (and sometimes almost Mongoloid looking, especially in Siberia) Russians. There isn't really that much of a noticeable difference between the real skin colors of the people as a whole. It's more a matter of perception. Lastly, I don't think the sentence is "weaselicious", I think its more that the average reader, especially one familiar with the Caucasus, knows that the Caucasians are actually rather white, so it would be confusing for them without that sentence (although I'll grant you it's not really the case either- there are plenty of black haired Russians, and some blond Circassians and Chechens). --Yalens (talk) 21:46, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

text: The racial type of Caucasians is not particularly on topic here, but by definition, Caucasians are the definition of "whites", often used as a synonym for the Caucasian race, named after them (specifically after Georgians and Circassians). As for Russians, I have known at least a couple Russians from European Russia who are at least pretty tan, though the majority are typical Eastern Europeans. Arguing Caucasians are not Caucasoid or "white is like arguing Mongols are not Mongoloid or "yellow". In any case, "race" is only a matter of perception, but the fact is that Caucasians are not significantly darker than Russians on average in skin color (and even in the case of hair color, though Caucasians are typically black-haired, there are a handful of blond or even redhead Caucasians- Maryam Tashaeva being an example of blond Chechen, for example). The designation of Caucasians as "black" has less to do with their actual physical appearance than it does with sociopolitical and cultural factors. As for Stormfront, the last I heard of that site as a matter of fact is was talking about the allegedly valiant struggles of "White Arian Russians" against the non-Arian Caucasians, though for obvious reasons I don't peek at Stormfront very often- and Stormfront should not be even taken seriously. In any case, this is a rather pointless topic here over a very minor issue.--Yalens (talk) 18:13, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

text: (I'm not really sure how this is such a serious issue to you) Yes, nobody has ever denied that Caucasians are on average darker than Russians.  Although the issue is interesting and both King and Jaimoukha have discussed it before in their writings- Jaimoukha (himself a Circassian) notes that the perception of the appearance of Caucasians is different between Western Europeans and Russians. Western Europeans who traveled to the Caucasus described the Circassians, Georgians and Chechens as being apparently slim, tall, large-eyed, black-haired and pale-skinned, whereas for the Russian mind, Caucasian conjures up a very different image-olive-skinned, curly-haired, and (sometimes) short. But the sentence should stay in there because it does clarify, as any normal reader who is familiar with the Caucasus and its people who clearly aren't black (black in teh English sense of the word meaning sub-Saharan African), and that the definition of "black" does indeed have to do with non-Russian facial appearance and cultural factors. That's why I think whoever put it there put it there. Its at least not a "frantic effort by foreignors", and nothing of the sort. --Yalens (talk) 19:53, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "White Christian Russians" 

message: Poles have also been victims of ethnic attacks in Russia. Additionally there is some heavy anti-polish literature by nationalist circles published in Russia, including political ideologists from Eurasianism movement for example, who believe destruction of Poland is one of core goals of Russia.--Molobo (talk) 22:21, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Against Poles 

message: 1.
"Caucasophobia is a neologism, introduced in the Russian and Caucasian media (as Кавказофобия)." 
- where are the soursce and the list of concred newspapers. TV channels etc.?
2.
"Members of these ethnicities are often depicted as dangerous savages who are a threat to public safety."- What does the author mean "often"? how many times are they depicted as a dangerous savages? Any sources?
If u have no sourses, please dont write "often". I propose "sometimes" instead of " often"
3.
"Following the Russian-Georgian crisis of September and October 2006, Russian authorities have rounded up Georgians and demanded that schools draw up lists of pupils with Georgian last names."- Russian authorities ve rounded up  Georgian for the purpose of a discovering  illegal immigrants ( look  http://www.lenta.ru/news/2006/10/06/chase/_Printed.htm  - on russian) .A discovering of illegal immigrants is a duty of Immigration Service in all countries.Authourities have a right to take any legal measures ( a drawing up lists of last names is  not prohibited legal step) in oder to discover and to deport illegal immigrants.It s a worldwide legal practice. According that, activity of russian authorites cant be recognized as a racism. 
4.
The authorities have also taken other actions that have led protesters in Moscow to draw a parallel between modern Russian initiatives with Nazi Germany's initiatives to round up Jews.[8]
It s the uncorrect comparison whithout any cases,sources ( http://www.euronews.net/create_html.php?article=384022&lng=1 is dead). That s why I delete it right now.
Speaking about "anti-caucasianism", there is one group thati s always mentioned and it seems to be the Chechens, which quite many times been pointed out in this discussion-article (also adding other caucasian muslims). Studying russian/soviet history there seems to be a (maybe weak) link leading back to the Stalin era when some caucasian (along with others) peoples were deported to Siberia and Central Asia. Before the communist era there was hostiliy to jews in particular, but there is no mention of any particular hostiliy to chechens (and other caucasians) in these times. so this is a relatively new thing, this "anti-caucasianism". Indeed there were at times violent hostility towards armenians in the tsarist empire.
One way to explain: when the Soviet union broke down ther were criminal "structures" from perhaps any ethnic group (russians included) that suddenly you were free to do everything. It developed in to a struggle between russian and other criminal gangs. Among the others there were caucasian (and central asian) groups.  To some russians:  "these chornye is behaving badly". And to other not so educated russians it would seem like "they are all like that".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.237.145.126 (talk) 15:51, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hostility towards Caucasians/Muslims 

message: 1.
Caucasophobia is a neologism, introduced in the Russian and Caucasian media (as Кавказофобия)." 
- where are the soursce and the list of concred newspapers. TV channels etc.?
2.
"Members of these ethnicities are often depicted as dangerous savages who are a threat to public safety."- What does the author mean "often"? how many times are they depicted as a dangerous savages? Any sources?
If u have no sourses, please dont write "often". I propose "sometimes" instead of " often"
3.
"Following the Russian-Georgian crisis of September and October 2006, Russian authorities have rounded up Georgians and demanded that schools draw up lists of pupils with Georgian last names."
- Russian authorities ve rounded up  Georgian for the purpose of a discovering  illegal immigrants ( look  http://www.lenta.ru/news/2006/10/06/chase/_Printed.htm  - on russian) .A discovering of illegal immigrants is a duty of Immigration Service in all countries.Authourities have a right to take any legal measures ( a drawing up lists of last names is  not prohibited legal step) in oder to discover and to deport illegal immigrants.It s a worldwide legal practice. According that,  in that case,activity of russian authorites cant be recognized as a racism. 
4.
The authorities have also taken other actions that have led protesters in Moscow to draw a parallel between modern Russian initiatives with Nazi Germany's initiatives to round up Jews.[8]
It s the uncorrect comparison whithout any cases,sources ( http://www.euronews.net/create_html.php?article=384022&lng=1 is dead). That s why I delete it right now.
Hostility towards Central Asians/Muslims
5.
"Despite overwhelming evidence against them"
Does anybody see the list of evidence?If no, please dont write this. 
Where is the source of information?
 
6.
" by a jury which consisted entirely of ethnic Russians"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Saint_Petersburg#Ethnicity
- 84.72% of Saint Petersburg's population are russian. Is it abnormal that. the jury consisted of ethic Russian?
79.126.50.5 (talk) 18:17, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hostility towards Caucasians/Muslims 

message: Does this racism affect tourist's? Like im an norwegian, would there be a posibility that i could be a victim of a racist attack if i was going to moscow or st. petersburg for 5 days?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Skino (talk • contribs) 22:11, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  It depends on your skin colour.  Assuming you are ethnic norwegian, you shouldn't have a problem.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.31.229.246 (talk) 17:44, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

text: I do not recall this many racist killings at any point in time during the history of my own country, which is not far away from Sweden.Grey Fox (talk) 14:49, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  how is this racism affecting tourists? 

message: Many people on this website approve of these sorts of attitudes. I think Stormfront is a pretty hilarious website myself.--I Want To Do This (talk) 04:27, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stormfront 

message: POV against Putin, Medvedev and United Russia. Pure, blatant and simple. Why 2000s? Did racism in Russia not exist prior to the new millenia? Were there no racial attacks under Yeltsin? No racism under Gorbachev? I read people, who wrote this article pretending racism not to exist in Russia prior to Putin coming to power, are the exact same ones speaking of anti-Baltic racism in the USSR, before Putin's coming to power. Looks like someone wants to eat their cake and have it too. This article must either be expanded, or deleted. Racism doesn't emerge overnight, and unless you, dummies who wrote the article, want to get laughed out of wikipedia, I recommend you change it. "And elected, Putin was. And racism came into Russia." Is that the point of this biased article the same one reiterated so many times in hopes the lie can become the truth of "Putin = bad"? FYI - worst racial atrocities in Russia occurred under Yeltsin's "Democracy". HistoricWarrior007 (talk) 02:36, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: *Nice conspiracy theory.  In reality, though, there is no cabal with a purpose of spreading anti-Putin/anti-Medvedev/anti-United Russia POV. ΔιγουρενΕμπρος! 17:47, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Except certain oil companies that Putin kicked out of Russia. The same "powerless" cabal that led the US into a disastrous war in Iraq. HistoricWarrior007 (talk) 23:49, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

text: *I appreciate your conspiracy theory about the conspiracy theory, but it is not based in fact.  All oil companies are too busy going after free energy inventors, they just can't afford spreading anti-Putin/anti-Medvedev/anti-United Russia POV. ΔιγουρενΕμπρος! 07:52, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

text: *I think the article is far from being a soapbox.  It does connect three entities together, a country, racism and the decade, but I guess the much higher occurrence of the crimes at the intersection of the coordinates is mentioned in the news.  If you find references to ethnic hate crimes committed by groups of trained nationalists in Russia of the 80s or 90s, including murders of anti-nationalist activists, you could create another article and merge or categorize them.  The head of the state, later of the government, is mentioned twice in a positive key.  I could not find his name criticized in the article.  BTW, if the head of the government and the head of the state see the surge of hate crimes, they can straighten things up any time by enforcing the law.  Stepping down is also an option. --ilgiz (talk) 18:12, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually under Yeltsin a lot more ethnic crimes occurred then under Putin. All of the hate groups in Russia got their start under Yeltsin, and then simply rebranded themselves to survive under Putin. HistoricWarrior007 (talk) 23:49, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

text: I agree. And it should start out in the 1990's, not when Putin assumed power. If you rename the article, and include racial data under Yeltsin, I'll drop my protest. HistoricWarrior007 (talk) 23:49, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you saying that you don't object to discussing racism in Russia, you just want to blame Yeltsin and not Putin on it? ΔιγουρενΕμπρος! 07:58, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

text: I'm not sure.  The 1990s' racism was conducted by people of an older generation; people who had been subjected to Soviet notions about ethnic relations from an early age.  People who have been pushing racism in the recent years are largely people who are too young to remember Soviet times, so they rely on other ideological bases.  Naturally, 2000 is not an exact cutoff line, but it's a reasonably round number to separate these two generations. ΔιγουρενΕμπρος! 07:56, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Why not just put it all in one article in different sections? Ostap 21:35, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: "Nice conspiracy theory. In reality, though, there is no cabal with a purpose of spreading anti-Putin/anti-Medvedev/anti-United Russia POV."  --  Ha! Nice conspiracy indeed. I think everyone should take a look at this and laugh at that bold faced lie. LokiiT (talk) 03:52, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nomination for Deletion 

message: I think this should be mentioned or at least have an article. Its not like the Soviet bullshit game that everyone saw eachother as "internationalists" was anything else but that: bullshit. Tallicfan20 (talk) 10:23, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  racism in the Soviet Union 

message: The English version talks about Russian racist-extremists. The Russian page merely talks about "Racism and racial discrimination," definitions of racism, and mainly only examples in the US. They need to be unlinked or edited.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.9.203.200 (talk) 19:24, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Problems with link to Russian version of the Wiki page

message: "Racism in Russia appears mainly in the form of negative attitudes and actions by Russians towards people who are not considered ethnically Russian. "
I don't get it, Russians are a recognized Slavic ethnic group, even by Wikipedia, so why this subtle implication ?
--Savakk (talk) 19:32, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with the intro 

message: Not entirely the case; hate crimes are still on the rise, especially with the upcoming 2018 FIFA World Cup that is being held in Russia. 24.41.226.211 (talk) 19:15, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: reported by by British Broadcast and radio free liberty sponsored by the US and UK government. Have you any free media reports other than state media? nope--Crossswords (talk) 04:36, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

text: Both those sources are reliable, although if they're outdated that's a problem.Volunteer Marek (talk) 20:50, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

text: Decline of reported hate crimes in 2009 - what happened later?Xx236 (talk) 11:46, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Decline of reported hate crimes 

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thread_title:  Blacklisted Links Found on [[Racism in Russia]] 

message: What about the Racism against people from Middle Asia.--Jörg Gerstenmalz (talk) 20:13, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Racism against Central Asians? 

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