Feedback Stefania Kulaeva, expert of ADC Memorial, comments on the pogroms in Korkino, Chelyabinsk region, on the evening broadcast of the TV Rain:
“I would like to urge all those who talk and write about this incident not to name the pogroms “protests”, not to name it “an interethnic conflict”. These are pogroms when a minority is attacked by the majority. Don’t say “a baron” about one of the accused, it’s unclear where this word came from, it’s just an elderly resident of this house. Don’t publish photos of a minor suspect and another minor. Photos and personal data of a child who has rights protected by juvenile justice are published; all talked about him as about a murderer. We don’t know. It should not even be clarified by the investigation, but by the court, what happened there. One thing is clear — there is no initiation of a case of mass riots. What are pogroms? This is exactly mass riots. When hundreds of police officers try to stop the violence and cannot do it, this is mass riots, unlike any peaceful rallies in the center of Moscow, which were sometimes classified that way. I do not see such a case, despite the fact that there is violence, arson, destroyed property and a threat to the lives of people living in these houses. Moreover, we see a backlash from the authorities against the rhetoric spread by ultranationalist groups like the “Russian Community” and the “Northern Man”. And the authorities say that it is necessary to check all people on an ethnic basis, because “some people are talking.”