Moscow: “Kyrgyz patriots” mock their compatriots for having connections with immigrants from Tajikistan

In March 2012, two videos began to circulate on the Russian Internet, in which representatives of the same Kyrgyz gang mock their compatriots for dating young people from Tajikistan.

Apparently, the videos were filmed in Moscow.

In the first one, a girl was kicked in the face and threatened to be shot; in the second, another victim was stripped naked right on the street, and, shouting insults, they forced her to say on camera the address of her residence in Kyrgyzstan and Russia, and also to answer numerous questions of the attackers. In this video, young people who bullied a girl call themselves “patriots of Kyrgyz migrants in Moscow.”

The group's actions are clearly motivated by national hatred towards people from Tajikistan and fall under several articles of the Russian Criminal Code at once.

Sources

• "Nationalists" condemn Kyrgyz girls // Radio Azattyk. 2012. March 7.