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Add Kazakhstan to the list. Our diplomats abstained in the vote and refused to send any troops to Ukraine for exactly the same reasons. We share the longest lan
by 5e92cb50239222b 5y ago
Add Kazakhstan to the list. Our diplomats abstained in the vote and refused to send any troops to Ukraine for exactly the same reasons. We share the longest land border with Russia. There's a large Russian diaspora here. Last year there was a heavy propaganda campaign in Russia where they were trying to spin up a story as if the Russian-speaking population was heavily discriminated against here. As a native Russian speaker, I assure you this is completely made up. But now I know why they were doing it and I'm afraid we're next.
It's a pretty difficult situation and it will be interesting to see how the government is going to work around it. Personally, I am looking for a way out before it's too late. There aren't very many of them with my citizenship, though.
- philistine 5y agoNot to diminish anything you said, but your word order might imply something you don’t wish to imply. Kazakhs have the longest border with Russia, while the longest land border is the US-Canada border.
- 5e92cb50239222b 5y agoYep, I probably had a brain fart. Should be fixed now.
- hprotagonist 5y agoand, lest we forget, Baikonur.
- onemanstartup 5y ago
- vbezhenar 5y agoI'm of Russian-Ukrainian ethnicity, I was born in Kazakhstan and I'm living here for 35 years. I wasn't discriminated, not once. I'm not a very chatty person, and, of course, can't answer for other people experiences, consider it my anecdote. The only thing that I felt some discrimination is gradual reducing of Russian language usage. For example in hospitals there are often only Kazakh labels without Russian translations. I don't like it, but that's not a big issue and it's not wide-spread. That said, I don't exactly remember what heavy propaganda campaign 5e92cb50239222b talks about. I must have missed it, I guess.
- 5e92cb50239222b 5y agoHeh, my ancestors also come from Ukraine. Some Russians seem to have problems with everybody no matter where they are located. > gradual reducing of Russian language usage I'm guessing you're from Almaty? The situation may be somewhat different there due to completely different demographics, although my Russian friends from the south never had any complaints. I am a bit closer to the Russian border, which worries me immensely now. > what heavy propaganda The Russian news was filled with this bullshit for a couple a weeks. Back then I thought they were gathering political points before the coming election, but now I'm not really sure. https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/08/12/vam-russkim-iazykom-bylo-skazano https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/08/12/vam-russkim-iazy... https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/12/24/terpi-kazakh https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/12/24/terpi-kazakh
- vbezhenar 5y agoI'm from Nur-Sultan. I missed that incident indeed, thanks for links, it was really weird.
- smsm42 5y agoDidn't Russian military just suppress an uprising in Kazakhstan in January? Of course there wouldn't be a peep from Kazakh government against Russia after they just saved their asses. But as we all see, deals with Russia never come without strings attached, so Kazakh government should ponder when is their turn to be "reunited" and "reabsorbed" into Putin's Empire. And yeah, getting out is a good idea if love for Putin is not the only thing you seek in life. Because in Putin's Empire there wouldn't be many other options left.