Press Release: Africans Under Attack in Moscow (January 2010) Source: MPC Task Force on Racial Violence and Harassment For Immediate Distribution MOSCOW (MPC) – The new year has started off with a wave of attacks against people belonging to visible minorities, particularly Africans, across Moscow. The Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy (MPC)’s Task Force on Racial Violence [...]

Vera and Sergei are greeted by African students at the dormitory. As mentioned in the previous post about the film.

Residents of the Srednyaya Akhtuba district in Russia’s Volgorgad region did not elect Guinea-Bissau native Joachim Crima to the post of District chief or to the local parliament in October 11 elections Russian press Newsru.com, Ria Novosti, and Interfax (below) report. VOLGOGRAD Oct 12 (Interfax) – Afro-Russians who competed for heading the administration of the [...]

Here are some pics from the recent Made In Russia Battle 2009 hip-hop b-boy dance contest. Hip-hop with its roots in the 70′s black culture of New York City seemed a plausible draw for some of Moscow’s Africans. What I found among the Russians were two guys from France, two Brazilians, and a British DJ. [...]