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Russia Responds to Anti-Migrant Riots by Arresting Migrants
TIME ^ | Oct. 14, 2013 | Simon Shuster

Posted on 10/20/2013 9:59:20 AM PDT by klpt

There was no easy way for the mayor of Moscow to respond to this weekend’s race riots. On Sunday night, a violent mob clashed with police in the south of the city, hurling bottles, destroying property and screaming for a purge of minorities from Central Asia and the Caucasus. Their leaders claimed it was revenge for the unsolved murder last week of a Russian man at the hands of a dark-skinned migrant worker. But while Mayor Sergei Sobyanin was quick to condemn the tactics of the mob, he found it hard to distance himself from its logic. Just this summer, during the city’s mayoral race, Sobyanin was the one who brought xenophobia into the political mainstream. Now he was forced to reap what he’d sown.

So his reaction to the violence, bizarre as it seems, was understandable on Monday morning, when he briefed President Vladimir Putin on the incident. Instead of pledging to rebuild or at least protect the vegetable warehouse that the racist mob had ransacked, Sobyanin ordered it to close down for using migrant labor. And, instead of trying to calm the immigrants who were the targets of the violence, he ordered raids on street markets to arrest more than a thousand migrants at random. “We are carrying out a series of inspections not only at the [damaged] warehouse but other markets in Moscow in order to establish order,” the mayor told Putin. Almost as an afterthought, he mentioned that police had arrested the organizers of the riot and charged them with “hooliganism.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: muslims; russia
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1 posted on 10/20/2013 9:59:20 AM PDT by klpt
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2 posted on 10/20/2013 10:00:15 AM PDT by klpt
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Are they really “migrants” or are they illegal aliens?


3 posted on 10/20/2013 10:03:04 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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My question also.


4 posted on 10/20/2013 10:05:12 AM PDT by Jane Austen (Boycott the Philadelphia Eagles!)
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“...the unsolved murder last week of a Russian man at the hands of a dark-skinned migrant worker.”

Only ONE? Jeez....


5 posted on 10/20/2013 10:07:07 AM PDT by beelzepug (if any alphabets are watchin', I'll be coming home right after the meetin')
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Send them to GULOG in the Coldest, most Desolate part of Siberia
6 posted on 10/20/2013 10:10:08 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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Not surprised to see that the collectivists at Time used the word, “xenophobia” in their crap article or this

“So his reaction to the violence, bizarre as it seems,... ordered it to close down for using migrant labor.”
“...he ordered raids on street markets to arrest more than a thousand migrants at random.”

in order to vilify or demonize Putin for enforcing their own immigration laws.


7 posted on 10/20/2013 10:13:28 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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That aught to keep ‘em quiet for a day or two.


8 posted on 10/20/2013 10:13:30 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Oh Crap !! Did I say that out loud ??!??)
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They’re illegals.


9 posted on 10/20/2013 10:14:03 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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Who reads Time magazine anymore?


10 posted on 10/20/2013 10:16:05 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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“Who reads Time magazine anymore?”

libtards?


11 posted on 10/20/2013 10:19:03 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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That is the correct response... not to grant them super citizen status and give them billions of rubles for their crimes.


12 posted on 10/20/2013 10:21:21 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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Almost as an afterthought, he mentioned that police had arrested the organizers of the riot and charged them with “hooliganism.”

Ah,...so there was near immediate law enforcement action against the instigators of the violence, contrary to the meme of the Slime story. Slime magazine, your bias is showing.

And what ya want to bet "migrants" are the Communist term for factually illegal alien criminals in Russia? So law enforcement action was taken against them and their employers? Oh the huge manatee!! Slime mag, your bias is still showing.

13 posted on 10/20/2013 10:23:33 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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“Criminal invaders and covert jihadists.”


14 posted on 10/20/2013 10:32:51 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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So “migrants” is yet another way to describe “illegal alien invaders”?


15 posted on 10/20/2013 10:43:20 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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The comments to the article are interesting.


16 posted on 10/20/2013 10:44:59 AM PDT by upchuck (nobamacare must be stopped before it can live down to our expectations.)
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Slava Rosii!


17 posted on 10/20/2013 10:45:10 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Once again, Time magazine’s skewed perspective.

What’s new?


18 posted on 10/20/2013 11:01:28 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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Imagine, just a few short years ago the MSM thought Russians could do no wrong. Now it seems as though they do nothing right. Whats changed, guys?


19 posted on 10/20/2013 11:08:56 AM PDT by skeeter
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So “migrants” is yet another way to describe “illegal alien invaders”?

The article suggests that they are former Soviet citizens, now migrants, from several of the now independent Soviet Republics.

It is a little known fact that part of the reason the Soviet Union collapsed was the ethnic stresses between the Russians and the outlaying Republics.

20 posted on 10/20/2013 11:49:44 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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