From teh-nomad’s LiveJournal:
Black people put Putin’s security services in their place
At the Brics summit, Putin’s security services started a fight with the Republic of South Africa’s security services.
The South African security services would not let Putin’s security into the building.
A gif: “Your aggressiveness won’t get you anywhere in Africa”
It’s not clear whether the security men were allowed into the building, but they’re saying that [Foreign Minister] Lavrov wasn’t allowed in either.
[Note: the Russian word in the title translates literally as “Negroes”, but this is not generally seen as an offensive term in Russian, although awareness of its negative connotations is growing.]
Comments from teh-nomad’s LiveJournal:
zig_mund:
bart:
Just what these white-arses need.
[Note: calling a person a “black-arse” is a common racial slur in Russian]
antirobot_idiot:
Is our nuclear warship Peter the Great already on its way to the Southern continent?
bart: (responding to above)
No, it’s been rented out for a work party, complete with blackjack
valday1973:
From the video, it looks this wasn’t planned at all. It was stupid they didn’t let them in, that’s all.
sirrope: (responding to above)
They didn’t have tickets.
user_v:
They should have forced their way in
pcnariman:
The guys behaved like pros and didn’t start a fight, but the behaviour of the hosts was pretty yobbish.
labdepot:
Nothing to see here. The guys simply had a job to do, and couldn’t go against their instructions. They just carried out their duties like normal servicemen. The problems were caused by the idiots in charge, who unprofessionally didn’t sort out the question of co-operation between security services. All very simple. Those who were negligent need to be fired, no need for an international diplomatic incident.
ihatehuman:
Fuck these guys are idiots.
ruphochka:
First things first – not Negroes, Afro-Africans!
[Note: In a somewhat misguided attempt at political correctness, black people in Russia are commonly referred to as “Afro-Americans”, regardless of their origin.]
skytail:
No problems here. At 0:50, a group of GRU officers go through without any problems, these guys are just a distraction.
sedov_05:
You’ve used an extremely politically incorrect term. The problem isn’t that the West don’t like the word “Negro”, it’s that somebody who looks Negro could be Zulu, Bantu, or “coloured”. These “nations” don’t like each other, to put it lightly.
[Note: while “coloured” is considered politically incorrect in the West,
this commenter is genuinely trying to express respect.it is not in South Africa. See the comments for more.]