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sabato, ottobre 07, 2006
Dalla Russia con rancore. Ora, il problema sarà pure Saakashvili, ma i comportamenti terroristici (nel senso lato del termine) non giungono esattamente da Tbilisi:
Russia deported 153 citizens of Georgia on Friday as a wave of punitive measures against Georgian migrants and businesses grew, prompting criticism that the government is carrying out an ethnically motivated campaign of harassment. At least some schools in Moscow received requests from the police to list students with Georgian names, presumably to help in identifying illegal immigrants, prompting a complaint from an education official, Lyubov Kezina. And one of the country’s most famous writers, Grigory Chkhartishvili, a Georgian native who writes under the pseudonym Boris Akunin, told a radio station that tax inspectors questioned his publisher about his income from his hugely popular novels. Mikhail L. Tyurkin, the head of the country’s migration service, said on Thursday that all future work visas for Georgians would be eliminated. “Our analyses showed that today we do not need to attract Georgian citizens,” he said. The campaign against Georgians has been echoed in television and newspaper reports that have indulged in stereotypes and lurid descriptions of Georgian mafias and criminality. At the same time, however, the authorities have come under unusually sharp criticism in other parts of the news media. Così come qualsiasi comparazione con gli ancient soviet times è del tutto impropria (e su questo blog lo si è sempre sostenuto), allo stesso tempo sarebbe gradita un po' di onestà intellettuale nell'analizzare la sempre più marcata involuzione nazionalista, razzista, xenofoba e illiberale della Russia putiniana. Anche perché gli esempi cui appigliarsi non mancano ed ignorarli o scaricarne la responsabilità sulle vittime è una tattica piuttosto meschina oltre che storicamente scorretta. A maggior ragione se ci si definisce esperti. |
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