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« on: July 30, 2010, 05:20:40 PM »
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128753514

It's a couple days old, but still pretty interesting.
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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2010, 08:36:22 PM »
Well, I bet Russia's large skinhead population is pissed.
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« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2010, 11:50:38 PM »
They have black people in Russia?
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« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2010, 04:27:04 AM »
Since Blacks are not one of the sizable minorities facing serious discrimination in Russia... anyone who sees a "milestone" in this is so stone dumb that putting them down would probably increase the gross IQ of the world.
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« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2010, 07:07:44 AM »
Quote from: the sweetness of chai and the palliative effects of facts on July 31, 2010, 04:27:04 AM
Since Blacks are not one of the sizable minorities facing serious discrimination in Russia... anyone who sees a "milestone" in this is so stone dumb that putting them down would probably increase the gross IQ of the world.

It would be a bit like noting with pride that a town in Britain had just elected its first Mexican councillor.
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« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2010, 07:10:56 AM »
Quote from: the sweetness of chai and the palliative effects of facts on July 31, 2010, 04:27:04 AM
Since Blacks are not one of the sizable minorities facing serious discrimination in Russia... anyone who sees a "milestone" in this is so stone dumb that putting them down would probably increase the gross IQ of the world.

I still thought they killed black people every now and then?
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« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2010, 09:02:24 AM »
FWIW, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_post-Soviet_Russia
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