You are correct about the discrimination against many minorities. When it comes to foreign policy, Russia will go to hell and back to protect its people (i.e., South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and the Georgian invasion) but when it comes to internal matters, there is a growing nationalism among the populism.
Navalny, for example, is a known supporter of nationalists despite being "Putin's number one enemy" and the most visible opposer to his regime. Furthermore, you'd have to try not to find videos of Russian nationalists murdering minorities on Google and Youtube. Many people who immigrate from the -stan countries are the equivalent of Mexicans in the United States, having faced constant discrimination for taking Russians' jobs (in construction for instance).
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You are correct about the discrimination against many minorities. When it comes to foreign policy, Russia will go to hell and back to protect its people (i.e., South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and the Georgian invasion) but when it comes to internal matters, there is a growing nationalism among the populism.
Navalny, for example, is a known supporter of nationalists despite being "Putin's number one enemy" and the most visible opposer to his regime. Furthermore, you'd have to try not to find videos of Russian nationalists murdering minorities on Google and Youtube. Many people who immigrate from the -stan countries are the equivalent of Mexicans in the United States, having faced constant discrimination for taking Russians' jobs (in construction for instance).
-stans imigrants obviously, but I had also in mind the various native tribes of Syberia.