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Russophobia panic fanned by school scuffle in Uzbekistan
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Russophobia panic fanned by school scuffle in Uzbekistan

A Tashkent teacher’s aggression has triggered another effort by Kremlin surrogates to counter Russia’s declining cultural influence in Central Asia.

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Sep 27, 2024
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Closed-circuit television footage showing a teacher at a Tashkent school grabbing a pupil by the neck.

In the worst-case scenario, giving a teacher lip usually ends with the offending pupil visiting the headmaster’s office.

Things have to get pretty bad for a classroom kerfuffle to provoke a diplomatic incident.

A teacher at a school in Uzbekistan’s capita…

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