http://www.coalitionagainsthate.org/2006/12/13/corruption-and-xenophobia-are-main-political-issues-facing-russia Comments for "Corruption and Xenophobia Are Main Political Issues Facing Russia" en http://www.coalitionagainsthate.org/2006/12/13/corruption-and-xenophobia-are-main-political-issues-facing-russia <p>Michigan State University Professor Vladimir Shlapentokh recently posted <a href="http://ucsj.org/stories/121306Russia.shtml">this essay</a> on Johnson's Russia List and gave UCSJ permission to post it here. </p> <p>The money quotes: </p> <p>1. "Political life in Russia revolves around two issues: corruption and xenophobia."</p> <p>2. "[T]he role of xenophobia in Russia will increase in the next years. With the elites' growing self-confidence, which is based on the country's massive revenues from oil and gas, and with the high level of social polarization, xenophobia in its various forms (anti-Americanism, hostility toward the former Soviet republics and various ethnic minorities) will be the single most effective ideological tool for the elites." </p> http://www.coalitionagainsthate.org/2006/12/13/corruption-and-xenophobia-are-main-political-issues-facing-russia#comments Hate Crimes &amp; Hate Speech Russia Religious Discrimination Federal Governments Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:53:49 -0800 Nickolai Butkevich 222 at http://www.coalitionagainsthate.org