The head of the Just Russia party, Sergei Mironov, has criticized the Kremlin’s handling of the mobilization since the Belgorod shooting range attack, in which two ethnic Russian Tajiks killed at least 11 people and wounded 15 others, accusing military commissars of allowing access to the Russian armed forces by people who pose a threat security of Russia, says the latest assessment of the conflict in Ukraine by the Institute for the Study of War.

The attack on the training ground in Belgorod region, which killed at least 11 people and wounded 15 others, is likely a natural consequence of the Kremlin’s policy of continuing to use the poor and minorities to replace its frontline forces while protecting wealthier Russian citizens. .

Russian sources put the blame for this shootout on two forcibly mobilized Russians of Tajik nationality.

After this incident, the Russian information space mostly responded with violent xenophobic rhetoric directed at Central Asian migrants and other social groups.

The leader of the parliamentary faction of the Just Russia party, Serhii Mironov, on Tuesday criticized the Kremlin in a long and xenophobic address on Russia’s migration policy, arguing that the mobilization exposed cracks in the Russian immigration system.

Mironov, who is a member of the Russian State Duma, accused the military commissars of allowing people who pose a threat to Russia’s security into the Russian armed forces, and accused the military commissars of keeping the door wide open to people from Central Asia.

Mironov suggested introducing a moratorium on granting Russian citizenship to citizens of Tajikistan.

Mironov’s calls for immigration reform demonstrate the role that partial mobilization appears to have played in catalyzing ethnic divisions, racism, and xenophobia in Russia’s domestic space, particularly against ethnic minorities.

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