Just when you thought this site could not get any more peculiar, now this.
Unfortunately, the curious reader is unable to make one's own conclusions on the merits of the documented case as a result of a combination of the expurgations of this blog's editor and the fact that supporting material has been reproduced in an illegible form.
However, if it can be surmised from the explanatory paragraphs above that the British Home Office is being expected to offer asylum to "dark-skinned Russians", who number in their millions, then that is enough to show this latest outing by La Russophobe is no less ridiculous than all those that have preceded it. Are we to conclude that any and every North Caucasian that arrives in Britain from Russia (not excluding those that are members of the Chechen military resistance, of course), should be offered asylum on the merest suggestion that they may or may not be attacked by racists on their immediate return to their native country. While nobody can dispute that the rate of racially motivated attacks is high, these are pretty weak grounds on which to base admission of a case for asylum.
It is also absurd to dismiss the suggestion that the applicant might consider moving to a different area of Russia; the obvious implication of Home Office recommendations being that racist violence has been manifest in specific hotspots, rather than across the entire country as this website would probably like its readers to believe.
It would also be an utter nonsense to draw parallels between this case, the little one is given to know about it, and those previously highlighted on this blog, which LR helpfully rounded up in an earlier post:

April 6 Voronezh: Vietnamese man beaten to death
April 7 St Petersburg: Senegalese student shot dead
April 8 Moscow: girl of 19 with Asian features bludgeoned to death
April 8 Moscow region: Tajik worker thrown from train
April 13 Volgograd: two gypsies beaten to death
April 16 Moscow: 19-year-old anti-fascist activist knifed
April 22 Moscow: Tajik builder stabbed
April 22 Moscow: Armenian student stabbed

Of all these cases, only two may (and that's a big may) have qualified for asylum on the grounds that this blog has proposed, seeing as the victims in question were not even Russian. This is not to condone the horrific acts of racism that these incidents illustrate, but to draw attention to foolishness and irrelevance of the sensation that LR purports to be uncovering.
Again, in spite of earlier lines of defence along the lines "this website is about Russia", could a black man from the United States claim asylum in a foreign country on the basis of the fact that he has been racially abused by the police or a member of the public? Though this is a frequent enough occurrence, there is no government that could accept an asylum plea from a U.S. citizen on this basis.
Racial abuse is a scourge in Russia, as it is in many Western countries, but who would seriously believe that creating a diplomatic incident on such patently flimsy and nonsensical grounds as those proposed by LR could do any good to improve the situation of Senegalese students in St. Petersburg, among others?

Anyone who is jealous that La Russophobe is already making news when she has hardly even existed yet can go jump in Pathetic Lake.

Anyone who would like to receive their own copies of the documents in question for close inspection may request them by emailing La Russophobe at larussophobe@yahoo.com.

Reiths comment is so stupid its not even worth replying to.

I don't think it sounds like he cares what is happening to all those people being beaten up in Russia. Just says 'Racial abuse is a scourge in Russia, as it is in many Western countries'. In order words, it happens elsewhere so Russia's off the hook.

Do YOU do anything to help these people Reith or just sit around making snide comments to try and look clever?

Johann,
You are wrong on every point you have raised. I am interested in the fate of ethnic minorities in Russia as I happen to have many friends among them. However, this blog's implication that the problem can be remedied by the British Home Office offering asylum to either non-Slavic minorities or non-Russian nationals living in Russia is an utterly absurd one.
Neither did I say that racism in other countries lets Russia off the hook. The fact is that to claim that it is a feature of society inherent to Russia, or even to say that it is worse in Russia than anywhere else, is not true.
So what are you doing to combat racism while answering comments that don't need answering, Johann? Whatever it is, it doesn't look like it's working.

I didn't ask if you had friends who were coloured.

I asked what YOU were doing to help these people.

You didn't answer.

Oh, now I'm the problem. The point of me saying that I have "coloured" friends, as you so gracefully put it, is that I think I have some (limited) insight into the problems that they have in Russia. As it is, many of them do not report the problems that people like you seem to believe they suffer every single day. In Moscow, at any rate, violent racism is a relatively rare occurence, so short of creating the pointless diplomatic incident I spoke about earlier or guarding them 24 hours a day, there is not an awful lot that can be done. As the experience of other countries shows, racism is a social problem that takes generations to deal with. The United States, which is presumably the benchmark that LR thinks Russia should aspire to, is perfect evidence of this, is still a place where racist attitudes are extremely common, notwithstanding Consitutions and all.
In my own small way I have set to challenge certain Russians I've met, some of them as students, who have preconceived notions about racial minorities. Fortunately, most of my acquaintances are enlightened enough not to hold such opinions. Contrary to what you believe, and I say this while realising that the actual truth will mean nothing to people with prejuduced views, most Russians are not neo-Nazis hell-bent on ridding the country of foreigners.
But no, let's go with your idea. Let Britain give asylum to millions of non-Slavic Russians, most of whom live in places where they constitute the majority of the population anyway. How ridiculous can you get?

What a lot of words.

You've just talked to some people, right?

And anyway, as you say, you wouldn't need to do much because "In Moscow, at any rate, violent racism is a relatively rare occurence". Except your first comment lists 5 deaths in 15 days in Moscow and the Moscow region last month

That is what you call relatively rare?

Is this the same country about which last month Amnesty International said:

“Racist killings and violent attacks against foreigners, visible ethnic minorities and anti-racist campaigners in Russia are OUT OF CONTROL and some Russian authorities are turning a blind eye."

Maybe Amnesty, not usually known as a friend of the arch capitalist USA is now joining it in a worldwide anti-Russian worldwide conspiracy?

Or maybe you are wrong.

JOHAN: Very nicely said. Welcome to La Russophobe!

This debate has conveniently shifted emphasis. The original post was about the foolishness of the British government's refusal to entertain asylum for Russian citizens. Nothing you have said addresses the fundamentally fallacious logic of that criticism.
But to address your main point, I have never maintained that racism, in all its forms, does not exist in Russia, or in Moscow for that matter. Indeed, April was an unusually bloody month for racist violence, but the manipulation of these events in the service of a generalised assumption of Russians' inherent racism is rubbish. These attacks constitute part of the work a disgusting extremist minority that does not reflect general attitudes. For all its worth, Putin himself paid some lip service to the problem of ethnic hatred during today's Victory Day parade. He could do this because he knows that it is a sentiment that rings true to the vast majority of Russians.
Incidentally, you can keep your weak scorn to yourself as far as "talking to some people" is concerned. There is no magic wand to wave away all the problems that exist in Russia, but it makes a small difference in working out how to solve them if you can at least understand them in the first place. Indeed, this forum is shaping up as the ideal location for the shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later brigade.

Incidentally, a vastly more constructive exchange than this was held during the last edition of the BBC's Radius program, which should remain online for the next twenty hours or so. It is available for listening to at this website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/russian/programmes/newsid_3029000/3029081.stm

Gosh Norton, you're going to put me out of business! Nice work. Welcome to La Russophobe.

My Russian wife, who lives in Scotland with me, phoned her mum in St Petersburg a few weeks ago after seeing a program on a Russian channel that we receive here in Scotland, which was covering the plight of the 9 year old girl stabbed to death in St Petersburg, I think in 2004. Anyway, when my wife mentioned the program to her mum, and told her how shocking this racial killing had been, her mum simply replied "Well she deserved it didn't she? Filthy Tajik girl."

My point? Clearly some Russians think their cities should not be inhabited by those they consider not true Russians. Sad- yes. Shocking- yes. True, unfortunately, yes. My wife was certainly speechless. Like me.