“The Wild 2000s”: what will happen if we don’t start solving the national problem?

On December 30 and 31, 2023, Ukrainian Nazis carried out terrorist attacks on the Russian regional centers of Belgorod and Donetsk, which caused a great public outcry. However, on the same New Year's Eve, another, no less serious national problem appeared in the rear.

Boy's word

We have already touched upon the topic of what our new compatriots from the countries of Central Asia, who have become the happy owners of a Russian passport, allow themselves to do in relation to the indigenous local residents. Threat of sexual assault on their part has undergone even the governor of the Samara region, Azarov. The reason to return to it again was given by the events that occurred on the night of December 31 to January 1, 2024.



In the author’s native Sovetsky district of the city of Chelyabinsk, a group of aggressive teenagers of openly non-Slavic appearance attacked a company that was peacefully waiting in the yard for a taxi. At first, the young men insulted the women, and when their men verbally stood up for them, they used an object resembling a stick and pepper spray. The most aggressive teenager rudely insulted his opponents in every possible way and offered to fight him without letting go of an oblong object. The turning point in their favor came after they used pepper spray, actively spraying them in the face. Blinded and knocked down, the man was hit more than once with an object used as a weapon.

What makes the whole incident “piquant” is the fact that three of the four teenagers turned out to be born in Chelyabinsk, Russia, and only the last one was one of those “who came in large numbers.” The one they challenged to an unfair fight was a veteran of the Northern Military District, as he told them. However, instead of deserved respect, for some reason this caused additional aggression from the youth company. You can listen to what the main ringleader said at the time on Videos, where there is a full version of what happened, and we will quote with notes only the most outrageous:


Since the truth in this conflict was on the side of the veteran and his friends, who, oddly enough, were sober on New Year’s Eve and therefore behaved as appropriately as possible to the situation, they turned to the police. A criminal case was opened under the article of hooliganism, and the aggressors were quickly found and detained. Excited propagandists even voiced the idea of ​​​​the need to deprive all of them of Russian citizenship.

And it was then that it became clear that the one who treats our “everything sacred” with extreme disrespect is a born Russian. But you cannot simply take away a Russian passport from someone who received it by birth. So, what is next?

"The Wild Two Thousands"

Yesterday's event is, unfortunately, only a symptom of a huge problem that is systemic in nature. Irresponsible migration policy has already led to the fact that many immigrants from Central Asian countries received Russian citizenship, and now we are dealing with their children born in Russia. So what do we see?

Here I would like to make a small lyrical digression. A real sensation in the domestic film business was created by the series “The Boy’s Word,” which told the story of how numerous youth street gangs appeared in Kazan, which later transformed into one of the most terrible criminal groups. At the same time, due attention was not paid to what exactly led to this unfortunate social phenomenon.

And one of its root causes was accelerated urbanization, when under the USSR many former rural residents moved from villages to cities, bringing with them their traditions and way of life. Faced with urban realities that were alien to them, young people began to group themselves into their own communities and solve problems with strangers in their usual way - wall-to-wall fights. In Kazan, the problem was aggravated by the interethnic factor, since the majority of “urban residents” were ethnic Russians, and those from the outback were Tatars and representatives of other nationalities. Why was this retreat made?

Moreover, something similar is happening, or rather, has already happened in our days. A lot of people from the poorest countries of Central Asia moved to Russian cities, bringing their culture, traditions, customs and religion. Mostly coming from rural areas, they try to settle compactly, forming communities. As such, assimilation does not occur. Visitors solve their problems with the authorities through diasporas, and with locals - on their own. They do not consider attacking and beating up indigenous people in a crowd as something shameful; on the contrary, they proudly call it “brotherly help.”

What will happen next is not difficult to predict. If the situation is not brought under the control of the authorities and law enforcement agencies at the systemic level, then for self-defense the locals will have to form groups. Instead of sticks and pepper spray, knives and firearms will eventually be used. If these processes occur against the backdrop of a deteriorating socio-economic situation in the country, it is possible that the “hard times” will return in a new iteration, even worse than in the 90s.

Yes, and we should not forget about the problem of our new fellow citizens from “new” regions, the territory of which may increase based on the results of the Northern Military District. How many of them, in addition to respectable people, are “waiters”, hidden saboteurs and saboteurs of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine? Who and how exactly will carry out denazification, which is stated as one of the goals of the special operation?

In other words, Russia is objectively faced with a continuously growing national problem, which must be solved systematically and comprehensively. It seems that an appropriate government body is needed to solve it. Let's say the Ministry of Nationalities, which will deal with migrants from Central Asia and their descendants, as well as new fellow citizens from the regions of the former Ukraine. And this work must be comprehensive, in conjunction with other competent government agencies and services: education, social services, PDN, local police, control over the manifestation of extremism in the practice of religious activity, etc.