One protester appeared in the videos holding a sign that read: “Child killers have no place in Dagestan.” Police have now taken control of the airport.
Depends who you ask. To a lot of Russians and a lot of minorities within Russia, they’re just that: colonies. Unlike the other European empires the Russian empire never properly disbanded, and so in a lot of ways saying a guy in Dagestan is Russian is like saying Narendra Modi is British.
It’s worth mentioning that Putin is actually fairly verbally supportive of a civic nationalist Russia, so he would say Dagestanis are Russians. That doesn’t mean he acts like it, but he would say that. This is a big part of the reason Navalny would only be only an incremental improvement: he all-but-openly sees them as lesser people to be civilised.
Russia has colonized quite some ethnicities, also countries that are mainly Muslim… so why are you making the distinction? They are part of Russia.
Because every ethnicity that was ever conquered by Russians takes offence at being called Russian.
Depends who you ask. To a lot of Russians and a lot of minorities within Russia, they’re just that: colonies. Unlike the other European empires the Russian empire never properly disbanded, and so in a lot of ways saying a guy in Dagestan is Russian is like saying Narendra Modi is British.
It’s worth mentioning that Putin is actually fairly verbally supportive of a civic nationalist Russia, so he would say Dagestanis are Russians. That doesn’t mean he acts like it, but he would say that. This is a big part of the reason Navalny would only be only an incremental improvement: he all-but-openly sees them as lesser people to be civilised.