Single cases of “domestic nationalism” should not be perceived by the Russian authorities as systematic violations of Russian rights in Kyrgyzstan. About this, the head of the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry Ruslan Kazakbayev said in a conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, writes “Sputnik Kyrgyzstan”.
Commenting on the incident with an attack on a Russian-speaking girl in the shopping center in Bishkek, he said that in relation to Russians in Kyrgyzstan, “there is no Russophobia and other forms of aggressive nationalism, there are no facts of rewriting history, combating monuments and the Russian language.”
Kazakbayev added that a criminal case was initiated against the attacker under Article 266 (“Hooliganism”) of the Criminal Code of Kyrgyzstan. At the same time, he expressed regret on the proposal of the State Duma deputies to ban the entry to Russia to foreign citizens who committed such crimes. In his opinion, the statements of individual Russian politicians “should not be reflected on the mutual travel of citizens of the two countries.”
Lavrov telephone negotiations and Kazakbayev passed on August 16. During the conversation, the Russian minister urged the Kyrgyz authorities to quickly respond to discrimination against the Russian-speaking population in the republic and make every effort to prevent such incidents in the future. He also noted that the recent cases of the oppression of compatriots on a national basis were summoned in Russia a wide public resonance.
On August 6, in one of the shopping and entertainment centers of Bishkek, a man, being in a state of intoxicated, demanded from a Russian-speaking employee, so that she spoke to him exclusively in Kyrgyz. After that, he began to insult the girl and threw a calculator in her head.