And because they have fingers in their ears and don't pay attention, they assume nobody else is speaking. Then they condemn those people they ignored for their alleged silence, even as those who are "silent" continue to shout.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/russia-travel-advisory.html
Travel Advisory
December 10, 2018
Exercise Increased Caution due to terrorism, harassment, and the arbitrary enforcement of local laws. Some areas have increased risk. Read the entire Travel Advisory.
There's a "do not travel" advisory for some places, but the entire damned country's under the "exercise increased caution" advisory.
This is neither the first one for 2018 nor the worst one. I'm still tied in (in a truly limited fashion) with the Slavistic community in the US, and they openly discuss such things because they send their students, grad and undergrad, there. At least the "racial violence" warnings have mostly stopped. Used to be some AfAm and Latino students would make rumblings about discrimination when they were advised not to study in Russia, but it all boiled down to being an obvious outsider in a culture that was experiencing a violent xenophobia spike. (No, nothing like the US's. The US's barely registers against background noise. This was a real problem.)
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