By Max Musson:
Following violent clashes between police and nationalist demonstrators in Moscow over the last few days, Moscow police have moved to arrest as many as 1200 immigrants across the capital in an effort to defuse tension.
Last Sunday night’s rioting in the southern Biryulyovo residential district of Moscow erupted after hundreds of Russians gathered at the spot where Egor Shcherbakov, 25, was stabbed and killed in front of his girlfriend on the previous Thursday evening by an immigrant from the Caucasus region.
The nationalist protestors fought running battles with riot police, attacking first a shopping mall where many of the shops employed immigrant workers and then a fruit warehouse where the murder suspect is believed to have worked.
During Sunday’s disturbances, 380 nationalist demonstrators were arrested, although all but two of them have now been released following dozens of fines, but Moscow police have moved to prevent further protests by making mass arrests of immigrants, many of whom are in Russia illegally, and the police are reported to have arrested a number of their own officers known to have taken bribes from illegal immigrants in return for protection.
Nationalists in Russia are opposed to mass immigration from the central Asian republics and from the Caucasus region. People from these areas, which were once part of the Russian Empire and later under Soviet control, are not ethnic Russians, are predominantly Muslim and differ significantly from ethnic Russians in terms of ethnicity and racial composition.
The nationalists, chanting ‘Russia for Russians’ during last weekends demonstrations, are opposed to such immigrants providing a pool of cheap labour in their country, thereby undermining the wage bargaining power of Russian workers and taking their jobs.
It would seem that the problems associated with mass immigration faced by the British people and other nations across the rest of Europe and North America are shared by the people of Russia. Interestingly however, the people of Moscow have employed a different and seemingly far more effective tactic in tackling these issues, taking to the streets in violent demonstrations instead of engaging in futile election campaigns.
How successful these tactics will be in the long-run, only time will tell.
By Max Musson © 2013
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rarecockney
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Get on the Max Musson son. The only show in town, for reliable nationalist news
Kenny Bryant
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Militancy at street level is a pet subject of mine, so I for one am pleased to hear of a situation that lends some credence to my particular take on the correct road to freedom.
Cry Havoc!
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This is what we need in this country. Nationalists having been trying politics for too long.
Franklin Ryckaert
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In Russia it works because their police and their politicians have a different mentality from ours. I doubt it would work in any West European country.
Steve
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Russia is a tough country.
It’s how we used to be!