Chinatown in Moscow?

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Since the demolition of Cherkizovsky Market in Moscow this year, lots of immigrant that have been working there lost their jobs. And neighborhood where the market was located started getting more and more Chinese with every single day. Immigrants from many countries invaded the district and since the market was demolished they lost not only their jobs but their place of living as well.





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According to the official information, more than 100,000 of immigrants worked at the market and at least 60 % of them were Chinese. But just think about off-the-record figures? We can only guess. And along with Chinese people, their food and their language started flooding Lyublino neighborhood and some of other adjacent districts.

One cinema even started to screen movies translated into Chinese to boost their income. You can see the advertisement of this movie theater on the title picture. Moreover, the cinema’s management showed its blazing greediness and made the pay-toilets there.

But how can they get money if they haven’t any job to earn it? Then local and state authorities began organizing chow wagons in the neighborhood to support down-and-out incomers and to lower the crime rate.

And of course neighborhood citizens didn’t want to close eyes to such an injustice and started making lots of protests because their homedistrict started growing dirty and filthy, while the director of already nonexistent market built seven-star hotel somewhere in Turkey. That’s how it goes, folks.

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    104 Responses to “Chinatown in Moscow?”

    1. lietuva says:

      So? You should welcome immigrants with open hands.

    2. I have been to china last year and I was shocked to see chinese toilet WITHOUT doors!(Of course, men’s and ladies are divided-not shared)

      Now, Is it moscow’s turn for doorless toilet(for chinese residents) to appear?

      Mere thought of my last year’s memory still makes me chuckle

      • 钦哥 says:

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        你是不是到传销窝点转悠了一趟!
        奶奶的
        想死啊
        哥会English,但是懒得和你说,懒得用英语骂你!
        棍NMLGB的memory吧!!1

    3. mike says:

      What were those protest signs and shirts saying?

    4. Allan says:

      Sad to see immigrants on that conditions. I hope they can get jobs and live with dignity…

    5. PYRO IS SPY says:

      How odd, I wonder why they chose Russia in the first place.

      • It’s simple..Money!

        The reason why company hires foreign worker(like those in this article) instead of its own country men is that their wage and other burden(insurance and other welfare which company has to pay for) is less than domestic workers

        If this company’s interest coincides with chinese worker’s concern of (1) higher wage(relative to wage in their motherland’s) (2) easy entry (to destination country),
        then many chinese workers will end up working in construction sites etc

        More often than not, considerable number of chinese emigration workers are illegal emigre and their hiring
        company exploits this weak point(ie: delay of paying wage
        and even physical violence by empoyer)

        Then you can wonder how authorities can not detect such problem..In many cases, Authorities already know the existence of such abuse and illegal emigration worker
        but they often pretend not to know it because they know companies can spend less cost on workers by hiring illegal emigration workers(In some cases, companies actively bribes authorities for such matter)

        The pathetic fact for such workers is that they can not report such abuse by their employer because if they report that matter to authorities, they would be expelled from country(Often expelling WITHOUT receipt of delayed wage!)

        Do not forget that the present relatively well living developing countries had such memory of their people’s illegal emigration workers

    6. johanz says:

      What do those stickers say with the “evil character” crossed out in red?

      • lietuva says:

        It’s pretty much “white power” propaganda crap.

        • Taupey says:

          We are all guilty of discrimination! It’s a part of self-preservation!

          I always wonder what are the personal reasons for people to protest in such a way! If in fact they are protesting against another race and not the action of some of the people of another race.

          I’m not saying that it’s right but I’m not saying it’s wrong either!

          • Musa says:

            Lietuva why do you say it’s “White Power” propaganda crap? Is it because they are “WHITE RUSSIANS” who are protesting in the interest of their race and culture?

          • Domo says:

            The problem with immigrants is that they often (not all nations, but some) create clans in those remote districts of Moscow city, where they live. They “infiltrate” police departments and other services, create corruption.

            My friend, for example, has almost been put in jail and deprived of driver’s license in Butovo (Moscow district), where he lives, because he was supposedly drunk driving (he wasn’t). It’s a long story, but you get the idea.

            • Kirov says:

              Foreigners are sticking together, is not weird. Strangers in strange land. Also because they are NOT accepted by locals. Self fulfilling prophecy!! Russians are weird: hospitable and very very xenophobic at the same time!!

      • CZenda says:

        “We are against Cherkizon in Moscow”. Google “Cherkizon”

    7. ReD-007 says:

      Srat’ ya hotel na Moskvu, chtobi pusto um bilo. (A friend from Siberia)
      I am indifferent to Moscow. It serves them right.

    8. russians eat their own soup of culture pluralism term they spread 70 years during communism.
      their government is occupied since that time by alien enemies.
      history shows you whom I mean.

    9. Fat Boris says:

      F@cking yellow bastards! Russians must create an anti chinese virus.

    10. Hande says:

      Boris, take it easy. They are people just like you.

    11. Taupey says:

      This place was closed down for illegal activities and smuggling violations earlier this past summer.

      A Senior Chinese Deligation headed by The Chinese Vice-Minister of Chinese Commerce, Gao Hucheng had agreed with the Russian Federation on this action.

      Then a fire broke out in the warehouse of this Chinese Wholesale Market last month. The cause has yet to be determined.

      It is said that there are plans to build a new economic center along with residental and student housing to repace this.

      • Taupey says:

        I appologize, I read about it from, chinadaily dot com dot cn.

        Anyway, it’s a very sad situation for the people who weren’t involved in the illegal activities but have to suffer for it.

        • Taupey says:

          The owner is Azerbaijani-born Jew Telman Ismailov!

          The Cowardly Telman Ismailov is said to be in exile in Turkey at his rediculously excessive seaside hotel The Mardan Palace!

          If I was someone planning to stay at that hotel, I would think again! That really might not be the safest place to be staying or dinning!

          Actually I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near old Telman! :(

    12. shizo says:

      The Russian nazis are idiots. But not all Russian people are idiots. Some protesters realize that it’s not the Chinese workers’ fault that Russian officials and businessmen are corrupt like hell. That’s why those white signs are saying “AGAINST ZOTOV” Zotov - a prefect(mayor?) of that area responsible for this. Also, the article mentions the director of this market who allegedly built a hotel in Turkey.. Are Zotov and the director Chinese? No, they are Russian.

      The only thing you can blame the Chinese immigrants for is looking for work and a better life.

      Anyone who says “Can you blame people for loving their country?” is a nazi idiot. It’s ok to love anything you want, as long as you don’t start waving some flags around, chanting slogans such as “Russia for Russians” and beat people because of their ethnicity.

      If anyone, those nazi Russians should be beating their own fellow Russian corrupt city officials and businessmen.

    13. John says:

      The Chinese people are very beautiful people but where ever they go they leave a trail of garbage & putrid smell.
      Also they don’t give a damn about your culture, only their own. That’s why you see all the Chinese signs.
      Most of the diseases in the world originate in China.
      “Sorry but it’s all true”

    14. SSSR says:

      Soon Russia will be as diverse as the USA!!

    15. Darwin says:

      Chinks are ugly, smelly, arrogant pricks who don’t give a damn about ANYONE but their own kind. I can’t stand their buck-toothed, slant-eyed faces.

      Diversity is killing Russia!!! Chinks back to Chink-land where you belong!

    16. After White’s defeats in Russian civil war, many russians
      emigrated to various countries..France, USA, China(There were small but prosperous russian emigre’s societies in shanghai and other cities) etc

      To my knowledge, those russian emigres were not so deliberately discriminated and hated like those chinese men.

      People who have blind hatred for those chinese or other emigration workers in the future should remember that most of their own ancestors who emigrated did not encounter severe discrimination

    17. Mirko says:

      For sure there IS a Chinatown in Moscow for at least centuries, it’s in the heart of the city, even a metro station was named after it: Kitay-Gorod. ;]

    18. Jerika says:

      Why is it that the day movie is always cheaper than the night movie.It is the same movie in the same theater.

      • Taupey says:

        LOL, Hey Jerika nice to see you! :)

        Maybe it’s because people traditionally work(ed) in the day so more want(ed) to go to the movies in the evening.

        So if more people want something, in a certain time frame, businesses feel it’s more valuble then and charge more even though it’s the same movie.

    19. w says:

      Chinese work hard and will end up rich and driving Mercedes - Racists will always be trash forever and have to rent from Chinese.

    20. poobar says:

      Words of advice: Keep your cats locked up indoors. Why do you think chineese food so cheap? Meow!

    21. Polish Gawno says:

      Poland heed chinese workers.

    22. Hu Jin Tao says:

      USA and Russia will be finished soon. U.S debt raising fast.

    23. Estonian says:

      No-no, racist countries like Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are still the biggest threat to Russia and russians :) We all laugh here! Soon its going to be yellow revolution in Russia and then we can see how faschist you russians really are…

    24. Where I buy that Russia lady in sign? What site I order her from?

    25. Where I buy that Russia lady in sign? What site I order her from? Do she cook and clean dishes?

    26. European says:

      Damned chinese like Cocroaches
      sent them back to theyr country where they belong.
      they have no right to live in ready russia-europe
      the place that OUR european-russian
      ansestors build for US not for chinese or others.

    27. European says:

      estonian idiots
      if russia will be full of them where shall they go?
      to your shit hole estonia
      im not russian im from the west european side
      but hey how can you so stupid?
      preserve Russia its the only thing holding you alive

    28. CZenda says:

      The “immigrant workers” (the term is rather idiotic - how many of them want to stay in the country that does not accept them?) are usually filling the labor requirements arising in the lowest labor-market segments. E.g., all the bricklayers working in CZ today are Ukrainians, Poles or Slovaks. The reason is simple - the uneducated Czech bricklayers have already been assigned to jobs in Germany or Austria (I have heard that certain numbers of local white trash were shipped to UK and Ireland too, but this is an unconfirmed report), thus there is nobody from the local population ready to do the job for the money offered.
      Welcome to the globalized world!

    29. FOCK YOU GOOKS

      CHINESE - GO BACK TO CHINA

      YOUR “WORKER’S PARADISE” IN YOUR “GREAT SOCIETY” AND “PEOPLE’S” REPUBLIC AWAITS YOU

      TAKE YOUR DRY CLEANING BUSYNESS, YOUR DOG- RAT- CAT- SNAKE- TREEBARK- AND BABY FETUS EATING HABITS ALONG WITH YOU AND GET THE FVCK BACK TO YOUR OVERPOPULATED H#LLHOLE

    30. Jason says:

      Hey, we have the same problem here in Malaysia. Russian prostitutes are taking all the pros jobs here because they dont mind the cheap wages.

    31. Jason says:

      The stickers are like what the USA had during world war 2 after Pearl Harbor was bombed.

    32. Russian unemployment rate is 10%. We steal your dry cleaning take out job. Russian people suffer when there is no vodka money. But chinese will always have flied wice.

      • Musa says:

        Russians are very resourceful people, they can turn wood into vodka and they got lots of wood.

        And if they get hungry, they go kill a bear without a second thought of how dangerous it might be hunting bear.

        Russians very strong people they are also bigger than puny little Chinese people and can sqawsh them like a little dirty bug under their feet! Crunch-Splaaat! :D

    33. interesting…Russians are treated in similar fashion in Western Europe and Japan as they are treating the Chinese and other immigrants. And what are our beautiful women known for in the West, Japan and Gulf States?…Prostitution. How sad. All people should be treated with respect and have the right to better their lives.

    34. X9044RTV says:

      I want Russians out of my country. The men are all lazy drunks committing crimes and all of their women are drug uses, prostitutes or both. They only contribute to the degradation of our society.

    35. zx10R says:

      you see russians how bad you feel when someone comes to your country and demands their rights?
      same shit is in baltic states. we also don’t want you here!!!

      • Musa says:

        HA! This ain’t anything even close to the Russian occupation of the Baltic Countries!

        Good God child don’t you let the Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians hear you compare this little Chinese thingy to all the years their countries were brutally occupied by Russians!

        Someone could get the poop kicked out of em talking crazy stuff like that round here!

        Now run along and be a good young man and stop playing on your parents computer when their not looking!

        Don’t forget what I told ya’child! ;)

      • Go back to school, little idiot.

        • I didn’t write this. SSSR wrote it using my name without my permission.

          • SSSR says:

            Must you be on this site with us Kovalyova??
            Click on your impostors name and click on my name!!This site has big brother on it now!!!!

            • You use a different email addy any time you descide to use someone else’s name!

              It’s not rocket science!

              Must you harrass me and defame my name every time I expess my opinion and make a comment you don’t like?

              Your behavior has been studied for months as part of research in human behavior on the Internet!

              Everytime you enter a comment, your telling on yourself whether you realize it or not!

              You’ve been profiled Mister!

            • Taupey says:

              Don’t be so foolish! That proves nothing! The fact remains that anyone can steal another person’s name by using a different email!

              EnglishRussia needs a program that requires the users to sign in and use a password to make a comment so the psychopathic cyber-bullies of the Internet like you can’t harrass and defame other user’s names just because they don’t like what they say!

              Keep harrassing me by jacking my name and writing your smut like you have for the last two months and you’ll find yourself in a lawsuit!

              • SSSR says:

                I have no reason to impersonate you Taupey.Who ever is doing it is laughing his head off right now.Many people post comments on this site and anyone can impersonate anyone here!I have been nice to you the whole time you have been on this site and now you point your finger at me!

    36. Kirov says:

      Aww, sad little retards are again impersonating me. Should I feel sad for them, or should I be glad that they respect me so much (obviously cause I am proven to be far smarter than those fat, pig nosed ass-holes)? hmmm anyway

      Dunno why they closed the Cherkizovsky market. Probably because the Chinese government was acting tough again (the Chinese were smuggling China-goods from china).

      Anyway those Chinese immigrants will either get jobs, or they will become beggars (Moscow is a shit-hole with many racists anyway, 25% of them are poorer than us). Or they can leave to other regions of Russia (especially Siberia, they are flooding the border when possible - this could stop our population problem ;)).

    37. you fools says:

      I myself Chinese and I can perfectly understand why most of you don’t like us chins here, I myself don’t like chinese neither that I sometime hate myself! but hey, instead of blaming chinese that went over you should blame the greedy bastards that hire the chinese in the first place, if u people really give a shit about patriotism and all that shit. Look at England, it’s been taken over by indian and parkistani, just like u russian, wanted cheap labour at first then before they knew it, their cities being taken over. People never learn.

    38. Ken says:

      Make a post with russian nazis…how they kill and beat up imigrants…most of the wievers of this site dont know that russia has the biggest number of neo nazis in the world witch are supported by the russian government

    39. cia says:

      Uncontrolled immigration will kill any remaining European & American culture, as there are far too many impoverished peoples in the world. All of them would like to move to Europe or America, and there simply isn’t enough room or resources (both material and economic.) Sad, but true.

      To leave your borders open, is to cease to exist eventually. (Of course, this concept suits the globalists!)

    40. “you fools”:
      Yes their workforce may be exploited by various employers, but that is not why they come to Russia. They buy their way in, or illegally cross the border - add to that the cultural differences, their illiteracy, and poverty: and it causes a horrible demographic problem. China has been aggressively pushing chinese interests in Russia and helping chinese although they are either no longer chinese citizens, or are staying illegally. Oh and also - chinese are racist, so its an irony.

      “Ken”:
      Yes, they do! You know why? Find out and it may just make sense as to why they do that.

      “Mother_Russia”:
      Typical leftist bullsh1t. Bettering lives at the expense of others is what otherwise gets people in jail, oh and also - try living with such “bettering their lives” people and we’ll see what happens.

      “zx10R”:
      The russians who are in baltic countries did not just come in overnight, they were there since USSR or even before that. And yes they are poor, criminal, or whatever else. They are to blame, yes. But ALL baltic states are famous for a)not giving russians citizenships and same rights b)being constantly descriminated c)not getting jobs because they are russian… the list goes on. And who did that?
      But they are not from china. And when you do get forced to accept new african, asian or other immigrants by your new friend in washington and EU, you’ll forget about russians in a focking second.

      And about prostitutes:
      Yes they are “bad”. But first of all every country has “domestic” prostitutes. And consider this: if men in xxxx (place your country’s name here) would have not been so hungry for russian pv$$y in the first place, there would be no prostitues. So STFU if you are hypocritical.

    41. authorized1 says:

      If the Chinese want to rule the world they should better begin with Russia.

    42. Team America says:

      You have it easy in Russia!

      We’d gladly trade all our blacks and Mexicans for your Chinese girls!

    43. 40 says:

      What’s going on in Moscow!

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