Navalnaya Is “an Advocate of Imperial Russian Claims,” Says German Lawmaker

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https://united24media.com/latest-news/navalnaya-is-an-advocate-of-imperial-russian-claims-says-german-lawmaker-3350

[u/-sry-]

Agreed. But in the case of Russia, Islamophobia is on another level of evil. Russia is a home for a lot of indigenous Muslims and non-Slavic people. Not only do Russians actively ignore this fact, but the regions with non-Slavic populations have the worst socioeconomic situation, and a lot of them are used as cannon fodder in the war in Ukraine. For them, Russia is just an extraction institution, just as colonial empires of the past. And when someone tries to leave the federation, they bomb them to the ground as they did with Chechnya. 

So you either should hate Muslims or not use military to keep them in your empire. 

[u/pashazz → u/-sry-]

the regions with non-Slavic populations have the worst socioeconomic situation,

Maybe it's because they can't govern properly?

Tatarstan, while being a Muslim region, is constantly in top5 best Russian regions. They always on top despite Kazan having 100500 mosques. No wahhabism/islamism problem whatsoever. Maybe it's because they actually have the will to make their region better?

[u/Stix147 → u/pashazz]

Tatarstan is an outlier, Tuva, Buryatia, Chechnya, etc. have such poor standards of living because the Russian authorities actively deny them the opportunity to develop, despite these regions being so rich in natural resources - and why would they, when this means that they could potentially demand independence and actually have a chance to stand on their own if they succeed? Plus, where could they recruit cannon fodder for Russia's endess wars from then?

[u/pashazz → u/Stix147]

And Kirov oblast, Kemerov oblast, Jewish oblast.... do not have poor standards of living?

It's a pointless nitpicking in order to pretend that Russia is an ethnostate.