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Racial Violence and Harassment 4Q 09 report

By • Jan 24th, 2010 • Category: Notes

Dear Colleagues, Attached you will find a copy of our 4th quarter 2009 summary report. We would also like to make you aware that in the first two weeks of January, we had the following three incidents reported to us. All three were unprovoked and appear to be motivated only by racism Click here to [...]



Press Release: Africans Under Attack in Moscow (January 2010)

By • Jan 13th, 2010 • Category: Notes

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 [...]



Volgograd Obama Not To Be

By • Oct 12th, 2009 • Category: Notes

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 [...]



Dr. Aibolit, Africa, Barlmaley

By • Sep 21st, 2009 • Category: Notes

Here is the video the mentioned earlier that the little African child watched in Little Vera. By itself it is just a cartoon, about Barmaley the nemesis of Dr. Aibolit. Without a larger mass of comparable cartoons, or some other context i.e. Little Vera, it has little to no value in a discussion of the [...]



Joachim Crima — Obama of Volgograd Update

By • Sep 2nd, 2009 • Category: Notes

An update on the Joachim Crima “Obama” story. Russian press reports on Sept. 2 that his candidacy for the Srednyaya Akhtuba district chief has been officially registered. Elections are scheduled for October 11. Some recent background by Russian journalist blogger Samson Sholademi, left, shaking hands with Crima, right. The following is a direct translation of Sholademi’s [...]