Russia and Ukraine

[Fake Messiah]

Next time anyone whines about the Azov Battalion.

https://romea.cz/en/world/the-times-puti...o-brothers

Russian politicians were notorious for making racist jokes about Obama. Like, does anyone still remember these "gems"?

Russian MP's Obama with banana picture sparks racism debate

The subject of racism has become the focus of a public discussion in Russia after an MP from the Duma caused outrage by posting an image of Barack Obama on Twitter that was photoshopped to include a banana.

Racism is rife in Russia, and black football players often face racial abuse involving bananas. In 2011, the Brazilian Roberto Carlos, playing for Russian team Anzhi Makhachkala, left the pitch in anger after a banana was thrown at him from the stands. In a separate incident, the club Zenit St Petersburg was fined the equivalent of about £6,300 when a fan offered Carlos a banana before a match.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/s...ism-debate

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Obama banana 'jokes' show Soviet-era racism remains alive in Russia

The Obamka bar (which translates to “Little Obama” in Russian) was part of an unsettling new trend in which tensions between the US and Russia have manifested themselves in racist jokes targeted towards the first black president of the United States.

This is the second time in six months that a business in Tatarstan has come under international scrutiny for offensive marketing geared against Obama. In December 2015, the supermarket chain Bakhtele two adult monkeys with their baby, on to whom Obama’s face was superimposed.

The same year, for Obama’s 53rd birthday, a group calling themselves the Moscow Student’s Initiative projected a light show on to the walls of the American embassy showing Obama in a birthday hat eating a banana. More recently, at the 2015 Red Bull Flutgag competition in Moscow, four participants alongside an Obama impersonator chasing after a banana.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/m...-in-russia