Tsirk — Circus
A triptych of scenes from one the Soviet Union’s most popular films of all time Circus, in Russian Tsirk, the story of a female American Circus performer, shamed in the US by her illegitimate black child. She flees to Moscow and after a few ups and downs finds love and racial harmony in the Utopian state.
Russian Court Jails Nine Over Racist Killing
MOSCOW March 11, (BBC) – Nine members of a Russian white supremacist group have been jailed for up to 22 years each in connection with the killing of a man from Cameroon. Three of the group, known as Simbirsk White Power, were convicted of the racially motivated murder of Etizok Ndobe Ernest in the city of Ulyanovsk. Investigators said his throat was cut and he was stabbed repeatedly on his way home from work as a DJ in 2008.
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Pushkin in Africa — Pushkin
Russian sculptor Grigory Pototsky, who can be seen in the bottom picture, presented a bust of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin to the Ambassador of Ghana at the Ghanaian embassy in Moscow. Why? Pushkin is a great son of Africa. He is the great-grandson of Abram Gannibal, an Ethiopian noble in the court of Peter the Great.
