Everything is as usual

“They didn’t care at all what color of skin they beat,” today’s Gazeta quotes the region’s governor, Vladimir Kulakov, as saying. And according to the prosecutor of the Voronezh region, “the murder of a Peruvian student fits into the general context of the criminal situation in Voronezh.” It’s not clear whether Voronezh residents are trying to assure the public in this way that the situation is completely under control, or are they admitting that showdowns on nationalist grounds are a completely common phenomenon for the city?