The Riots in Moscow

Thursday, 16 December 2010

The Riots in Moscow

The Riots in Moscow
We are very scared. We don't understand what's going on. Although we all understand what happens of course but we can't realize how we came to this.

This week in Moscow is under riots of rebel teenagers and young people, they revolt and beat Caucasians. Everything started with the murder of a football fan, the Russian boy. He was killed in a brawl by the same guy just from the Caucasus. Then football fans, his friends, blocked one of the main Moscow streets (Leningradsky Avenue), just for protest. Then it was the funeral attended by some hundreds of fans. It passed quietly and without incidents.
And then the nationalist-minded young people picked up the baton from the fans. They collected several thousand people and filled the main square of the country (Red and Manege Square) and chanted nationalist and openly fascist slogans like "Russia for the Russians." This huge crowd fell upon the seven Caucasian tourists and beat them, then the rebels rushed into the subway cars where dragged out the Caucasians and Central Asians and beat them too.
Today these disorders were very close to me. Nationalists threw cry even for schools (!) and caught on another thousand people to the Kievskaya Square (its other name is the Square of Europe). I live very close to it. Special military forces drove them into the the subway and the people were really afraid to go home. The drivers were afraid too because only a few hundred people were arrested, others were broken into groups and continued their riots around the downtown.
Someone talks that young people in London tell a different story but do the same. I don't know about London. But I know that our government don't want to see this and our official media plays down the extent of the riots. We are scared. And ashamed. If somebody's going to the Christmas and New Year in Moscow, I'm sorry that we are what we are. We ourselves are not very happy about this.