There has always been a strong resentment among ethnic Russians of the various foreigners who are in their midst. Back in the time of the USSR, the Communist leaders claimed to be “international,” and brought in African nationalists to be trained in ideology and trouble making. But Russian youts hated them, and sometimes killed them.
What these “skinheads” don’t realize is that their fellow ethnic Russians are aborting themselves into extinction. Instead of idling on the streets and going around stabbing people who are coming in to fill the vacuum caused by the birth dearth, they might do better to straighten out, go to work, have families, and raise children.
But Putin is doing nothing to move things in that direction. Rather the opposite. As Steyn points out, Russians are committing demographic suicide, and are well on their way to self destruction.
The birth rate exceeded the death rate in Russia last year for the first time in a very long time.