xenophobia under Putin

[Alexandra Smith]

  Quoting Daniel Rancour-Laferriere <darancourlaferriere at COMCAST.NET>:

> For the increasing xenophobia and ethnonationalism which has been
> developing under Putin, I recommend the BIGOTRY MONITOR.
>

Dear Professor Rancour-Laferriere,

I would like to add to you comment that various reports featuring  
Zhanna Bichevskaya and her performances of songs praising Russian  
monarchy and Russian identity that can be easily found on Russian  
websites provide an excellent  illustration to the ethnonationalistic  
trend you've mentioned above.
Her song "Kulikovo pole" is a striking example of xenophobia that  
urges Russians to fight the Other idenified in the song as "novye  
evropy i novye khazary". The song is available at this address:

http://www.artistka.ru/russkie/kpole.mp3


All very best,
Alexandra




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Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Lecturer in Russian
School of European Languages and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
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Edinburgh EX8 9JX
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e-mail: Alexandra.Smith at ed.ac.uk

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