A TV presenter from Tatarstan was outraged by the words of a State Duma deputy that “Avars, Chechens, Tatars are all Russians”
The presenter and general director of the republican television channel of Tatarstan, Ilshat Aminov, publicly responded to the recent statement of State Duma deputy Pyotr Tolstoy.
On the federal TV channel, Tolstoy said: “Our brothers: Avars, Chechens, Tatars, Bashkirs - all Russians. Ivan the Terrible did not take Kazan so that we would now suddenly start saying “Russians.” In response to this, Aminov called the deputy a representative of “caveman imperial nationalism” and said that “one can recall who took whom and how many times, but why succumb to provocations and multiply stupidity.”
“Why does Tolstoy talk to me in the language of a gopnik and allow himself to say such words?” - Aminov was indignant.
