With all due respect to the contributors, I don't really understand the purpose of this thread.
This thread was initially about immigration into Russia, but was re-named as it morphed into broader topics.
As, I think someone else opined, I think it's one of the best threads on the forum. It's not just a lot of Twitter posts and article extracts. There is a lot of info.
Yes I'm aware there are Muslims in Russia. Most seem to love their nation it seems. Maybe I'm misinformed on that front but from what I've seen thus far Russia's main cities seem like Western cities 50 years ago to me.
Russia is similar to the US in the 1980s. In that people are looking to get ahead materially and enjoy aesthetics. Even the clothes they wear are often quite similar. However, the successor to this is what succeeded it in the West - complaints of materialism, leftism, cultural Marxism. You can see this a lot of the streets of Moscow, with the most scruffy soulless looking hipster bums shuffling about.
On Islam, the situation is more complex, as the nature of Islam in Russia is different to what has been imported into the West.
I've been to several Muslim countries and Regions and the ones in Russia fit into the bracket of the ones where you can't see much evidence of Islam - Mosques, calls to prayer, hijabs, big beards etc. The more radical Muslims are from the Caucus or some of the poorer -stans.
Here is a photo of Miss Tatarstan.
You'd happily think that they were all Russians of some description. There are some very diverse people who identify as Russian, including people who are basically Asian. My experience in Tatarstan is that most Tatars and Russians don't see much difference between themselves. As they are mostly secular and similar in appearance.
This is a photo of Russians celebrating the memory of the Astrakhan cossacks, who cleaned the region east of Kuban of the Mongol-Tatar hordes who invaded 100s of years prior. You will see many Asian faces, as the Astrakhan cossacks drew heavily from the Asians - Kalmyks and Tatars.
These people consider themselves Russian, but it's complicated, as most Russians don't accept such Asian-looking people as Russian. My experience of Russians is wholly and only that they identify as white European Russians; and that they don't mind immigration from Europe, but don't want any from anywhere else. Since Russia hasn't been overtly ethnically cucked like Western Europe, this is expressed fairly openly. And even Russians who have an Asian appearance have told me to not communicate with the unwanted immigrants from central Asia.
But with that said, the government is largely quiet on these topics. It keeps the peace. The exception is the fake opposition Liberal Democratic Party. There are people who have criticised this situation and organisations against it - banned and left the country.
It appears to me that the apparatus that was setup prior to the fall of the Soviet Union wanted to create something like a Commonwealth (British) for the former members. But that has been disintegrating, and not just due to Western interference. Those countries either want to be independent (Kazakhstan) or they have become colonies (Georgia). So you have this peaceful overlay on ethnicity from the Russian Federation, which is not really what Russians and the various minorities want.
I presume there was some coordination between the emerging states at the end of the Soviet Union that kept its disintegration more peaceful. The collapse of multi-ethnic empires has always seen the aggressive drawing of borders. More recently - Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, East and West Pakistan. In the FSU this was limited to parts of Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Chechnya and now Ukraine. The death toll is probably around 1 million, but probably could have been several million without this management. But the reality persists - people want their own nation, Russians included.
I think most Russian men, particularly those who are better informed, lean towards pan-Slavacism, or pan-Europeanism. I've never encountered anyone with this Dugin approach of wanting to form a coalition of Russians, North Asians and Iranic people.
