xenophobia under Putin

[mikhail lipyanskiy]

Dr. Smith -
thanks for a scary morning - i listened to a few of the songs.
my favorite part was the fact that the "masons" are attacking chrtistian 
values. although not
openly stated - i think we all realize, as does the audience, that this 
refers to the jews.
i wonder how radical this is, or if any of these ideas are actually becoming 
main-stream?


ML



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexandra Smith" <Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 3:51 AM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] xenophobia under Putin


  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
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh EX8 9JX
UK

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