16.10 Russia’s Weak Identity Is the Key to Moscow’s Nationalist Riots
Russia’s few liberals are proclaiming that “fascism is at the gates;” the rather disorganized and fragmented nationalists are claiming for the umpteenth time that “our people are finally together as one;” Russia’s government is trying not to say much about it at all.
“It” is the riots in Biryulyovo, Moscow’s eastern dormitory district, notorious for its bad environmental record, the poverty of its inhabitants and high numbers of illegal migrants working in the “grey” – if not completely “black” – sector of the economy.
