Xenophobic insults in Moscow

On April 14, 2021, a video circulated on the Internet in which two women from Moscow insulted two natives of Buryatia.

On April 14, 2021, Saryuna Rinchinova posted a message and video on Instagram about the xenophobic incident that happened to her and her friend in Moscow. Rinchinova and Irina Darnaeva were sitting on a bench when women came out of the entrance "and with the words “Move your Kyrgyz faces,” they sat down next to each other.” Then the women continued their xenophobic cries and insults: “Yes, we were born in Moscow, but you you’re filming in any way, creatures, scum, have come in large numbers, bought passports”, “Obviously you weren’t born in Moscow, where did you come from? China, Japan, contagion bring it here”, “Look, what a daring one”, “Chunks have come in large numbers”. On the recording, one of the approachers can be heard threatening the arrivals.

When the natives of Buryatia got up from the bench and "dropped a thing, one of the women with flowers stepped on and kicked her to the side. In response, the Buryat woman snatched her flowers and threw them their. Then a second one flew up ... "The glasses of the injured woman were knocked down and a mark was left on the temple from the blow.
After the video with the conflict was published, other users also began to tell their stories on the Internet.

One of the users posted a video where a certain woman complains “that “every day narrow-eyed people run around here.” And later She decided to use physical force as well."

Another narrator wrote on Instagram Stories that when she was eight years old, classmates at school called her "chock" and asked why did she come to Russia. And when she was thirteen, drunk a man tried to chase her nine-year-old brother off the playground with with the words: "This was not built for you, go home to the mountains."

Another reported that the teacher "took and chopped off hair to the daughter of her friend from Kyrgyzstan.

A Korean girl who came to Russia from Donetsk reported that in 2020 she was attacked by a woman who punched her in the shoulder, and then immediately disappeared. And not so long ago, "another passer-by shouted in the subway, calling her a Chinese woman and ordering go back to your country."

Another user wrote that “there are villages in Buryatia where workers from the West who are at work all day ... As a result, there are many cases when Buryats faced nationalism from Russians in Buryatia.”

Sources

• Based on Instagram.
• Muscovites scolded neighbors with Asian appearance. This launched a flash mob about discrimination against peoples in Russia // 360. 2021. April 15.
• In Moscow, girls from Buryatia were insulted because of their Asian appearance. This sparked a discussion on the internet. //babr24.com. 2021. April 16.