Recent years have seen a marked increase in xenophobia, racism, and violence against dark-skinned people within the Russian Federation. Racism in Russia to get "out of control". Examples:
There was the cutting board sold in the central Russian city of Kazan depicting Barack Obama with the ears of a monkey.
There was the laser image projected onto a Moscow apartment building showing Obama eating a banana.
Now, to the growing list of public racism targeting the U.S. president, add this: a car wash located in the Far Eastern city of Blagoveshchensk.
The business is called Abama, which is close to the Russian pronunciation of Obama’s name. The banner on its façade over the entrance features a crudely drawn picture of Obama grimacing, along with the promise: “We Will Wash Away All The Black."
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