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.

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…