By pogroms I think he probably meant the chaos and the unrest and property destruction that took place during the national protests and riots that summer.
By pogroms I think he probably meant the chaos and the unrest and property destruction that took place during the national protests and riots that summer.
Ah, ok. In my experience, or at least in Wikipedia's, "A pogrom is a violent riot aimed at the massacre or expulsion of an ethnic or religious group, particularly one aimed at Jews.", so I read Putin as attempting to express (or feign) sympathy with blacks.
he was making this point regarding mass lawlessness and agitation against the state of blm and making the explicit connection to russiaтАЩs opposition movement, saying it was just as bad as blm. thatтАЩs my read of it.
By pogroms I think he probably meant the chaos and the unrest and property destruction that took place during the national protests and riots that summer.
Ah, ok. In my experience, or at least in Wikipedia's, "A pogrom is a violent riot aimed at the massacre or expulsion of an ethnic or religious group, particularly one aimed at Jews.", so I read Putin as attempting to express (or feign) sympathy with blacks.
he was making this point regarding mass lawlessness and agitation against the state of blm and making the explicit connection to russiaтАЩs opposition movement, saying it was just as bad as blm. thatтАЩs my read of it.