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@MrHat 396770 wrote:

I read stuff like this and it makes me glad that i live where i do. yes we get our fair share of trouble at certain festis but nothing like this . Would this have just been about publicity or is there a reason for the attack on that particualr event ?

there are claims the organiser was planning to run for elections. His ancestry is also from Kazakhstan so would he have been viewed by skinheads as “foreign”.

I’ve recently been reading a lot of event management plans for legal events in the UK and agree with you that we have it good here, and some of the “nanny state” stuff actually means incidents like this would be extremely unlikely these days (and it is not as if the right wing have not tried to disrupt music events in the UK, both licensed and unlicensed).

I’ve seen it mentioned in a few places but bear in mind Russian news is still controlled by TASS and Novosti.

That said, there is no gain for Messrs Putin and Mevdevev from escalating the level of casualties, this incident doesn’t exactly make Russia look good internationally anyway so I expect there probably was a stabbing – the media would get even more grief from the govt for making up bad news then for reporting it (the Russian govt are skilled at using disasters/incidents to increase their power!)

it is becoming increasingly common in Russia for entertainment venues to be targeted by various criminal/terrorist groups anyway.

2010 Stavropol bomb blast – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This even affects licensing in the EU and UK, whilst remnants of the Cold War tensions still exist, Russia is now “European” enough as far as nightlife and entertainment is concerned that authorities feel the same threats exist our side of the “New Iron Curtain”..