On September 8, 2006, the website of the National News Agency published a comment by a St. Petersburg scientist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography Yefim Rezvan about the reasons for the growth of xenophobia in Russia. In particular, E. Rezvan emphasized the significant role of the media in the formation of negative ethnic stereotypes. And this, in turn, will continue to provoke events similar to Kondopoga : “After all, if any Azerbaijani, Tajik, Chinese are caught in a crime, they will definitely write in all newspapers that the detainee is an Azerbaijani, Tajik, etc. sometimes I really want to suggest that journalists indicate the nationality of the criminal in all cases, even if it was a citizen Ivanov, a native of Leningrad, a Russian by nationality ... the current practice can lead to a real war .

He also drew attention to the incorrectness of the arguments about some kind of "ethnic crime", although, of course, it is present in the slang of law enforcement agencies. But professional slang is professional because only a group of professionals understands its true semantic content: "Let's leave this term to professional lawyers - if, of course, there is something behind this term at all, but we ourselves will not speculate on it" , - concluded E. Rezvan.

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Yefim Rezvan: No need to speculate on the term "ethnic crime" // ANN. 2006. September 8.

E. Rezvan: Don’t speculate on police slang