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...Once back, though, the Tatars' troubles were hardly ended. The houses many had once owned or lived in were now occupied by Russian settlers. "I came and saw an old couple living in my parents' house," says Osmanov, standing in the old Tatar quarter of Simferopol, Crimea's capital. "I couldn't have tried to kick them out. What would have been the difference between me doing that and what happened...
...code was instituted after Rashid Nurgaliyev, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, admitted that police have a "sometimes boorish attitude" toward citizens, and that the "moral education" of his officers "is far from ideal," Russian news agency Interfax reported...
...that room for improvement seems to encompass the entirety of Russian society, says Tanya Lokshina, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Russia office. "They have realized that if the police force, the army and the judiciary are not reformed, then the whole country is going to collapse...
...Russian media regularly publishes reports of incompetence, corruption and brutality - stories of police following no code at all. On International Women's Day, the press reported a story of an officer getting drunk at a precinct house in western Moscow and chopping off the hand of a junior officer with an ax. It was reported that the officer was fired, though the matter was hushed up and it is unlikely he will face time in prison...
...press release, the show at Harvard will feature nine artists, including “Ignacio Rivera, playwright and performer of “Dancer” and “Lagrimas de Cocodrilo/Crocodile Tears”; Scarlett O’skar, a pop musician who topped the Russian charts before immigrating to the United States; Red Durkin, acclaimed zinester, rapper, and comedienne; and many others.” Tranny get your...