Moscow Now Forced to Launch Coordinated Attacks on Ethnic Minorities Lest Those Attacked First Warn Others

Paul Goble Staunton, Aug. 17 – Last December, Russian security officers carried out coordinated raids against activists of the numerically small indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation, a reflection of Moscow’s continuing crackdown on non-Russians but an event that highlights a new development especially worrisome to the Kremlin. “The timing was deliberate,” Anastasia Anisimova says, because…