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Here are some of the historical color photos of the fort during construction and on duty http://www.digitaltmuseum.no/search?query=Austr%C3%A5t+fort

And to give our international members idea of “how black is black ass” -few photos from beauty queen contests on Caucases This does not prevent people from referring to them that way and you know it.

See your video from Russian March 2013 - main demands of this nationalists was to stop oppressing them (abolish anti-hate laws and free "political prisoners"). This "political prisoners" were not Pussi Riot and Khodorkovsky, as you probably guess. Also note how careful they are in selecting words to avoid crossing the line (not even dreaming of nazi symbols and slogans). Is it enough proof for you? About ordinary citizens - they are definitely not racists, not because they are so much civilized but because there is no other races present to excursive racism on (well, except Mongoloids but for historical reasons they are commonly considered "our people" to great extent) . Caucasus people and most of Central Asians are of the same race as we Russians are. So racism of even devoted Russian racists is very much theoretical -as well as theoretical was Soviet official anti-racism. Probably you remember old Soviet-time joke "I hate only two thing: racism and blacks". Even now i think less than 10% of Russians have EVER talked personally to the person of another race. But having said that, nothing like race segregating was present in Imperial Russia and Soviet Union. Fascists? I think not, there is nothing like organized fascism among ordinary people. But there is great deal of what i think xenophobia is right word to describe. Rooted deeply in history. Do not know is it more xenophobia among ordinary Russians then among other nations, but it is definitely here. And combined with general disbelieve in "rule of law" and law reinforcement, it often result in crowds trying to take justice in own hands. By the way typical Ukrainian argument about "Why Ukrainians are better than Russians" is "Ukrainians are of a pure Slavic blood, and Russians are the mix with Ugro-Finn (another version - mix with Mongols\Tatars)". I believe it is institutionalized racism. BS. Here are your "fascists" (who are supposedly in jail) beating up migrants from central asia while yelling "white power" in English last October: http://youtu.be/rx43dy8T4Ik "Regular" people against the muslims: You know very well that Russians are very racist - most common Russian slang for people from Caucasus are "black asses" which is used by ordinary people. A white girl with a non-white looking man will at best draw stares, and very likely negative comments about how she is a prostitute and so on (and I know that from a friend of mine who recently visited Moscow with her Puertorican boyfriend). So much for tolerant Russians...

1) Got any proof of that? 2) So you are saying that the ordinary citizens of Moscow are fascists and racists?

Maybe fascists? You very well know that this is BS. Here is "Russian" march 2012: These are the same people who were beating up migrants from central asia in Biryulevo couple of months ago.

Maybe you should clean up your own house before looking across the border - "Russian march", Moscow

Seeing some of the stupid crap that was posted here as "facts", the only thing that comes mind is this photo Some people on this thread are posting complete and utter nonsense as "proof" of whatever point of view they want to prove. Maybe it's time to use some logical thinking and have some respect for the intelligence of the people who are reading this thread?

Of course take over of Crimea had nothing to do at all with the current situation in Ukraine... It's all the West's fault...

Maybe they should have thought the line of retreat shooting up the march of their opponents. And given the police that allowed them to do that locals took it in their own hands. Very well deserved.

They are masochists and like to get beat up?

Too bad people in Donetsk didn't think that if they they do join Russia like they want and try the same thin a bunch of OMON will show up and beat them up and arrest them...

Ukrainian "Impolite people" . Seems strange to complain about it after supporting the presence of foreign troops in Crimea up until the referendum .

Yeah, and if you believe it there is a bridge that you can buy. Especially laughable the battling corruption part.

A lot of Russian tanks in 2008 were actually ancient T-62s

Yes. There were attempts to declare Crimea independent starting 1992 http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/06/world/crimea-parliament-votes-to-back-independence-from-ukraine.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Crimea#Autonomous_Republic_within_Ukraine_.281991.E2.80.93Present.29 On 17 December 1992, the office of the Ukrainian presidential representative in Crimea was created, which caused wave of protests a month later. Among the protesters that created the unsanctioned rally were the Sevastopol branches of the National Salvation Front, the Russian Popular Assembly, and the All-Crimean Movement of the Voters for the Republic of Crimea. The protest was held in Sevastopol on 10 January at Nakhimov Square. In 2006, protests broke out on the peninsula after U.S. Marines arrived at the Crimean city of Feodosiya to take part in the Sea Breeze 2006 Ukraine-NATO military exercise. Protesters greeted the marines with barricades and slogans bearing "Occupiers go home!" and a couple of days later, the Crimean parliament declared Crimea a "NATO-free territory." After several days of protest, the U.S. Marines withdrew from the peninsula On 24 August 2009, anti-Ukrainian demonstrations were held in Crimea by ethnic Russian residents. Sergei Tsekov (of the Russian Bloc and then deputy speaker of the Crimean parliament) said then that he hoped that Russia would treat the Crimea the same way as it had treated South Ossetia and Abkhazia.