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Russian Official: Ferguson Highlights ‘Serious Challenges to American Society and its Stability’
stlouis.cbslocal.com ^ | November 25, 2014

Posted on 11/25/2014 3:09:24 PM PST by ilovesarah2012

MOSCOW (CBS St. Louis/AP) — The violent protests in Ferguson, Missouri, reflect simmering U.S. tensions over racial discrimination that could undermine the country’s stability, a senior Russian diplomat said Tuesday.

The comments by the Russian Foreign Ministry’s human rights envoy, Konstantin Dolgov, were among the sharpest from a foreign official as images of violent protests in Ferguson topped newscasts around the world. The protests came after a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the killing of an unarmed black man, 18-year-old Michael Brown. “The developments in Ferguson and other cities highlight serious challenges to the American society and its stability,” Dolgov said in remarks broadcast by Russian state television.

More than 80 people were arrested in Ferguson and St. Louis following Monday night’s violent protests. Moscow appeared to relish turning the tables on the U.S. after repeated U.S. criticism of Russia’s rights record and its policies toward Ukraine. Relations between the two nations are at their lowest point since the Cold War due to the crisis in Ukraine.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: axisofevil; blm; dolgov; ferguson; konstantindolgov; obama; putin; rioting; transmittovladimir; ukraine
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1 posted on 11/25/2014 3:09:24 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

This guy is a new super hero called Captain Obvious.


2 posted on 11/25/2014 3:10:46 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: ilovesarah2012

“Racial discrimination, racial and ethnic tensions are major challenges to the American democracy, to stability and integrity of the American society,” Dolgov said. “We may only hope that U.S. authorities seriously deal with those issues and other serious challenges in the human rights field in their own country and stop what they have been doing all along recently — playing an aggressive mentor lecturing other countries about how to meet human rights standards.”


3 posted on 11/25/2014 3:10:50 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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Dear Paruskie gun decking shit bird .....we tolerate americans protesting but we shoot russians that instigate such crap from afar....Eat sh*t an bark at the moon ya russian POS !!


4 posted on 11/25/2014 3:13:44 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Tovarisch, there I believe he would be the Perceptive Kommissar.


5 posted on 11/25/2014 3:14:09 PM PST by abishai
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To: ilovesarah2012

Translated: “Ha ha, now YOU try to fix this without a heavy hand!”


6 posted on 11/25/2014 3:14:25 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: ilovesarah2012
Our life expectancy is rising.The USSR’s is dropping.
7 posted on 11/25/2014 3:15:01 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Stuff it, Ivan.


9 posted on 11/25/2014 3:17:10 PM PST by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Yeah, because Russia has been so great at dealing with their minorities.

Didn’t Stalin deport most of the Chechens to Siberia twice? That certainly pacified them.


10 posted on 11/25/2014 3:17:53 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: ilovesarah2012

Many people around the world believe that people of different races are not meant to live together and shouldn’t try.

I have to confess that I occasionally have my doubts, too.


11 posted on 11/25/2014 3:18:11 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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I admit to sometimes wondering what America would be like...


12 posted on 11/25/2014 3:19:23 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Jack Hammer

People often fix on visual characteristics for the sake of allegiance, and yes, race is one of them.

This can racialize and amplify the effect of social folly. It isn’t the color doing it, it’s what the people do with the color that does it.


13 posted on 11/25/2014 3:20:11 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

If we didn’t have misbegotten schemes like government welfare entitlement bribery, the average black American experience would likely today be much like that of the recent African immigrant. They would be too busy (and happy) hustling in various legitimate businesses to care; an exotic look would be regarded as a plus rather than a minus. And they’d have thick skins and laugh off things like being compared to Zulu queens and kings.


14 posted on 11/25/2014 3:24:22 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Chechnya.


15 posted on 11/25/2014 3:25:35 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

Basically we have the government forever telling them “Oh, poor you!” And they believe it.

GWB said it so nicely: the soft bigotry of lowered expectations.


16 posted on 11/25/2014 3:26:05 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I reading Al Jazeera article how about Tartar being treated by Russia official in Ukraine

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2014/11/pictures-crimea-persecuted-musl-201411259434641124.html

Take that Vlady LOL!


17 posted on 11/25/2014 3:27:44 PM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: ilovesarah2012

The hate American posse has scored again.


18 posted on 11/25/2014 3:30:59 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: HiTech RedNeck

My daughter has been to Uganda three times. They, for the most part, do not like American blacks. They like George Bush, though.


19 posted on 11/25/2014 3:33:07 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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Dude knows as little about America as the crew at MSNBC.


20 posted on 11/25/2014 3:34:10 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi!)
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