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["... for each persecuted Pussy Riot member there are thousands of Russian men persecuted for as little as derogatory remarks about migrants made in social networks. However, you have heard nothing about them because mass media is not interested in them and they don't have powerful advocates."]

"... for each persecuted Pussy Riot member there are thousands of Russian men persecuted for as little as derogatory remarks about migrants made in social networks. However, you have heard nothing about them because mass media is not interested in them and they don't have powerful advocates." See https://creativityalliance.com/forum/index.php/topic,3018.msg17816.html#msg17816

Wednesday's celebration of the new Russian holiday, People's Unity Day, was a massive gesture of nationalist fervor by patriotic Russians. Some 200,000 people from many different groups marched and rallied all over the country, and a considerable number of were explicitly racial nationalists.

Some organizations called the celebration the "Russian March" to emphasize Russian nationalism over "people's unity." DPNI, an organization whose name translates as Movement Against Illegal Immigration, went even further and called its event "March Against the Invaders." It boasted a uniformed drum corps and a turnout of 7,000 in Moscow (see photos). DPNI had the enthusiastic support of even more ultra-nationalist organizations such as the Slavonic Union and the Russian National Union. There were a few clashes with "anti-fascist" militants, but this year's People's Unity Day kept convincingly to what has become a five-year tradition: a clear demonstration of Russian commitment to Mother Russia.

People's Unity Day was established by President Vladimir Putin in 2005 to replace the Soviet Union's big political holiday, the November 7 anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. After Russia junked Marxism-Leninism, it made little sense to celebrate the revolution—though the Communist Party rejects the new holiday and still insists on celebrating the revolution.

Nationalists understood right away the importance of giving the new holiday a thoroughly patriotic flavor. Everyone had expected that the new holiday to be nothing more than a day off work, but even at the first celebration in 2005, nationalists surprised the country by showing the same spirit as the historical event the holiday commemorates: the liberation of Moscow from Polish invaders in 1612.

Unfortunately, Russia today faces an existential crisis, just as it did in 1612, and it was with the same urgency that Russian patriots took to the street on November 4.

Immigration

Russia has a border that is 12,331 miles long and there are plenty of people in the 15 countries on the other side who are trying to get in. Two countries, Finland and Norway, are prosperous and Belarus and the Baltic republics are stable. Poland and the Ukraine are borderline Third World, but their people are at least of kindred stock. Georgia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Mongolia, and North Korea are grindingly poor, and many of their people want to live in Russia. China is a special case: Chinese cities are prosperous, but many Chinese rural areas are miserable. Russia thus gets a stiff dose of neighboring Asians and Muslims, along with illegal immigrants from Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iran, and the Middle East.

Russia is even worse than the United States at keeping track of gate-crashers, so no one knows how many have sneaked in or overstayed their visas. At least 100,000 a year were said to be arriving in the late 1990s, and when the Russian economy was growing at more than 6 percent a year from 2004 to 2008, the demand for cheap labor must have sucked in many more.

Most illegals go to the big cities, but many go to the Urals and the Eastern Frontiers to work in mining and timber. Many immigrant groups, but particularly the Chinese, form enclaves, and although they are in Russia, they reproduce the communities they had in their homelands.

Like population figures, the cost of government aid to illegal immigrants is unknown. Most Russians get free medical care and education, so most illegals probably get these benefits, too.

Estimates of the number of Chinese in Russia run into the millions. Chinese come for the obvious economic reasons, and to escape the population pressures in a country of 1 billion people, but some also come to escape the one-child policy. Chinese are especially attracted to Siberia, whose sparse population is such a contrast to their own country. There is a legitimate fear of Chinese simply outnumbering Russians in certain areas. Already, Chinese are deeply involved in organized crime in those vast reaches were Russian military and police are stretched thin.

More here: http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2009/11/russia_at_the_c.php

Fedore is my Favorite fighter. He is a White Russian. Never been defeated except once because it was a match where if you bleed your out.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Fedor+Emelianenko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCdms3D22wk

The number of refugees gaining asylum in Canada has dropped dramatically under the Conservatives as new figures reveal the impact of the government's efforts to transform this country's immigration system.

New statistics released by the government show the number of successful claims by refugees living in Canada fell to less than half of what it was when the Conservatives came to office.

The final immigration numbers for 2008—as well as future projections—come as Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is promising to refocus Canada's refugee system on what the government calls "real victims" rather than migrants seeking to abuse the process.

During the summer, the government imposed visa restrictions on Czechs and Mexicans as part of a broader attempt to block bogus refugee claims filed from within Canada. A spokesman for Mr. Kenney noted Monday that Mexico was the top source of asylum claims in 2008, yet the Immigration and Refugee Board rejected those claims at a rate of 90 per cent.

Spokesman Alykhan Velshi said the department expects that in 2010, Canada will resettle 3,900 refugees from Iraq, 2,900 Karen refugees from Burma and 2,500 Bhutanese refugees.

Critics say the numbers show a lack of compassion and a potential disregard of the government's obligations under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to provide people with a fair hearing before deciding whether to deport them. They say lower targets will mean thousands of refugee claimants living in Canada will face further delays in hearings, and more will be deported to a very uncertain future.

"If we deport the wrong person because we denied their claims, some of them suffer torture, beatings, occasional death . . . drastic consequences," NDP MP Olivia Chow said. She pointed to a report last month that a 24-year-old woman who was murdered in Mexico had made two failed refugee claims in Canada.

Citizenship and Immigration's annual report, released on Friday afternoon, revealed that the number of refugees approved after applying in Canada dropped by 56 per cent from 2005 to 2008.

The report also shows the projected number of refugees who will be accepted from within Canada—known as "inland protected persons"—will remain near the lower 2008 levels both this year and next.

The lower numbers reflect the fallout of a refugee determination system that slowed to a crawl in the first two years after the Conservative defeat of the Paul Martin Liberal government in 2006.

The Conservatives vowed to overhaul the Immigration and Refugee Board—the panel that rules on refugee claims—saying it had become a haven for Liberal political appointees.

But in the move to a new system, many board positions were vacant for months, swelling the case backlog and limiting the number of hearings. There is now an 18-month delay between a refugee claim in Canada and an IRB hearing.

According to the minister's spokesman, the time it took to change the IRB appointments process is the main reason for the drop in the 2008 numbers. But now that almost all of the board positions have been filled, he said, the numbers will climb again in the short term.

However, Mr. Velshi said the report's projections do not take into account the minister's plans for a new system that will weed out "bogus" claims made in Canada more quickly while still respecting the Charter.

"Clearly our system is being abused," Mr. Velshi said. "[The minister] plans to reform our asylum system to give a faster decision to real asylum claimants."

Janet Dench, the executive director of the Montreal-based Canadian Council for Refugees, said the report's numbers show a clear change in Canada's approach to refugees.

"Canada is becoming dramatically less welcoming toward refugees," said Ms. Dench, who takes issue with the government's assertions that it is showing an openness to refugee applications from abroad. "It's a very bleak, bleak picture for refugees and for Canadians that care about refugees."

http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2009/11/asylum_seekers_4.php

KENTVILLE — Kings County residents will have the province's first race relations policy based on the United Nations' commitments to address racial discrimination around the world.

Today, Kings County council's new committee on race relations and anti-discrimination will be officially launched, making it the only such municipal committee in Nova Scotia.

"UNESCO (UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) put out 10 commitments for combating racism and discrimination, and Kings County council has committed to forming (its) own committee following these commitments," Jim Retallack, a citizen member and secretary of the committee, said Monday.

The committee was not formed in response to any recent events.

"It's just an underlying issue that was there and not being addressed," Mr. Retallack said in an interview.

"The structure provided by the UN gave council the opportunity to put something in place," he said.

The committee is comprised of two councillors and four citizen members.

"We've taken the 10 commitments and parsed them out and asked: 'Which are the ones that we can address most effectively?' " said Mr. Retallack.

It has started with employment practices within the municipality.

It plans to rewrite its employment policies so they are inclusive, and train all municipal staff in issues of discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation and disabilities.

Mr. Retallack said it's significant that council has formally approved the committee, recognizing "that this is an issue that needs to be addressed."

The committee has set up a website, where it plans to publish people's rights and steps to take if someone believes there has been an act of discrimination.

The committee also plans to survey people's attitudes toward equality issues in an attempt to understand the underlying beliefs, said Mr. Retallack, president and CEO of Acadia Management Group Inc., an energy consulting firm based in Wolfville.

"We also want people to start thinking about exclusion," he added, "so that they understand by their own behaviour what it is they may be doing."

The committee has met with the Kings detachment of the RCMP to look at the police force's program of recruiting and training as a possible example for the county.

He said the Mounties also meet with foreign students at Acadia University each year to explain how the force operates, which in many cases is radically different from how police forces operate in their home countries.

The committee will be formally launched today at the Old Orchard Inn in Greenwich, with guest speaker Igho Natufe, president of the National Council of Visible Minorities in Ottawa. 

http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1149895.html

yeah, or anyother southern states.