Our people are being beaten

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“Russian pogroms” began in Kyrgyzstan.

The revolution in Kyrgyzstan has entered a new stage - crowd outrages and pogroms of everyone who does not resemble - in appearance or in any other way - the victors of the revolution. As we know from history, aggressive lumpen sort out their friends and foes. They feel with some animal instinct that their “finest hour” has come: now they can kill, drive out, intimidate, take possession of other people’s property.

It is obvious that the tribunes of the Kyrgyz revolution are not yet able to take control of the aggressive crowd. Or they don’t want this consciously, allowing the people to “walk around” before putting the yoke around their neck again. This is what usually happens. And in Kyrgyzstan this was the case no more than 4 years ago.

Russian-speaking citizens still live in Kyrgyzstan. Many of them settle compactly - in settlements near Bishkek. These are people who did not leave Kyrgyzstan after the collapse of the Soviet Union - they had something to lose. Now they want to take this “something” away from them. Yesterday, several hundred Kyrgyz armed with sticks and torches burst into the villages of Mayevka and Leninskoye; they broke into Russian houses and demanded to get out. Leaving lands and houses to new owners.

Someone is undoubtedly directing the crowd. “If the city authorities said that there is no land in the city, then it is necessary to take land outside its borders and urgently legalize it,” one of the speakers said at the rally.

According to the first information, two Russian-speaking citizens have already died in clashes. The Russian Embassy, ​​however, claims that it “does not have such information.” It is clear that in such turmoil it is difficult to keep track of everything, but isn’t the fate of Russians and Russian-speaking citizens what the embassy should deal with first of all in an emergency situation?

Moscow is completely silent. We receive the head of the provisional government of Kyrgyzstan at a high level, forgive multimillion-dollar loans, issue a new humanitarian tranche for a couple of hundred million dollars...

We are, of course, conducting some kind of political bargaining, discussing the presence of American and Russian military bases, but not a word about the citizens close to us. Well, it’s not our tradition to talk about individual human destinies.

And even now, when they are really in danger, federal channels are silent about this, and the embassy gets off with routine comments. There are completely different stakes in this game now. They are measured in millions of dollars, number of warheads, kilometers of border. But not in terms of human lives.