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Alexey Mitrofanov takes regional agitation to the federal press
On October 25, 2004, Nezavisimaya Gazeta published the opinions of a number of public figures regarding the surge of xenophobia in Russian society.
An exception to the opinions expressed was the position of State Duma deputy from the LDPR Alexei Mitrofanov, who once again voiced the party’s position in relation to migrants. It is significant that at the same time A. Mitrofanov used the same rhetoric as in the propaganda campaign in Pskov : “The economic positions of the southerners are very strong, they have captured all positions. And in different areas they are strengthening. And this will end badly. It will end with the loss of economic positions And the political positions of Russians in their country... We collapsed the USSR not because of Gorbachev’s mistake, but because the dynamics of the growth of the Muslim population was such that in five to ten years Nazarbayev would have been president. This is why the USSR collapsed. And now we seem to have been saved for 10-12-15 years, but again the southerners are making their way to power - now in Russia. This is all very sad. The Russians do not understand what is going on. They will be slaves in their own country." However, similar “campaign” was used by the LDPR during the parliamentary election campaign.
Deliberately keeping silent about the fact that crimes on ethnic grounds have very specific features, A. Mitrofanov repeats the argumentation of ethno-nationalist movements: “If a foreigner, then on national grounds. If they hit a Russian professor in St. Petersburg on the head, then this is ordinary hooliganism. This is wrong. " .
It is significant that, as before , such a statement by a State Duma deputy, in fact the second person in the parliamentary party, published in a federal newspaper, did not cause any public reaction.
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