Russian Community Only Allows People of ‘Slavic Appearance’ Enter Yekaterinburg Agency without Having to Wait in Line

Paul Goble

            Staunton, June 8 – Exactly a year ago, members of the Russian Community organization marched through Yekaterinburg declaring that the city should be “only for the Slavs.” On the same date this year, they did not just march but blocked the entrance to the city’s migration agency and allowed in without standing in line only those of Slavic appearance.

            This is yet another indication that the Russian Community vigilantes now feel that they can act with impunity and may even enjoy the support of the authorities given the anti-immigrant messages the powers that be have been sending (t.me/itsmycity/43717 and sova-center.ru/racism-xenophobia/news/racism-nationalism/2025/06/d51739/).

            But this action highlights something else as well which may be even more fateful: the Russian Community doesn’t distinguish between non-citizen immigrants and citizens of non-Slavic nationality. This group has thus crossed the line that threatens to deepen the divide between Russians and non-Russians, a dangerous development indeed.

            That is all the more so because the Russian Community now has branches in almost every federal subject and city in the country and under Putin at least can be counted on to spread this poison not just the Urals but across the Russian Federation (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2025/06/russian-community-now-country-wide.html).