Asylum in Bardak - Africans in Russia
Bardak - lit. brothel, Russian slang for chaos, disarray, disorder

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Tsirk — Circus

By Michael • Apr 4th, 2010 • Category: Single Photo

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 [...]



Russian Court Jails Nine Over Racist Killing

By Michael • Mar 12th, 2010 • Category: Notes

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 [...]



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By Michael • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Single Photo



Global Post — Street Life Moscow: Strange Land, An African in Russia

By Michael • Feb 24th, 2010 • Category: Notes

From Global Post By Miriam Elder and Dmitry Venkov



Pushkin in Africa — Pushkin

By Michael • Feb 16th, 2010 • Category: Multiple Photos

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 [...]