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On 12 July 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved to Russophobia. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

Pro-russian narration

Reading this, it's easy to have the impression that it was mostly written with pro-russian bias. Only the small part mentions that "Russophobia" is sometimes used by Russia as narrative to cover up the fact that some of the alleged "phobia" is just natural reaction to Russian imperialism. This section should be longer, as "Russophobia" is infact mostly a phobia of Russian imperialism coming from eastern European nations that were abused. Imagine an article about "British empire phobia", as British Empire was at many levels similar to Russian Empire when it comes to colonizing, just not over seas. I'm pretty sure that article about "British-phobia" would mostly consist of the argumentation that British phobia was mostly natural reaction to British imperialism and exploitation. It's sad that Russian imperialism is not regarded as serious imperialism in the West, because of thinking among the lines that Russia was not imperialistic, because "they didn't have oversea colonies, and later they had communism so they must love equality", etc... 46.204.100.225 (talk) 02:13, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

More than half a century has passed since the times of the USSR, and Russia has changed a lot (and for the better) since then.

Unfortunately, there are plenty of russian mods on English Wikipedia who work day and night to whitewash russian atrocities as much as possible. 109.87.36.102 (talk) 11:35, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately for you, you're wrong.

Seems that the anti-Russian lobby never give up. For is not attempting to undermining an article that presents convincing evidence to question long-standing Russophobia and hate, a little pointless and counter-productive? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a00:23c6:27a1:5401:8520:ea41:c442:1254 (talk) 16:51, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

True. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.36.166.200 (talk) 15:57, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Racism, prejudice and discrimination against Russians

It is prejudice, discrimination and racism against Russian people.

Can you please adding "Discrimination sidebar" on the page? 2605:4A80:7804:8EE0:50E2:6635:4B60:4991 (talk) 08:27, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done IP seems to want to add "racism" to all kinds of anti-X sentiment articles, see the list of their contributions. Rsk6400 (talk) 17:05, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Grammatical errors

There are two missing words in this article that should be inserted, and one word changed, according to the rules of English grammar:

Under "History in Europe", the following sentences should read :

"Contemporaries described the Tsardom of Russia and early Russian Empire as a barbaric enemy of Christianity."

"Western nations had unfavorable views of Russia, with the (not an!) exception of Italy, which was attributed by Pew Research Center to a delivery of medical aid by Moscow early during the pandemic.".

"85% of Americans polled by Gallup between 1 and 17 February 2022 had an unfavorable view of Russia."

These sentences look wrong without these terms and are bad English! 92.233.179.5 (talk) 15:51, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done, thanks for pointing these out. – AllCatsAreGrey ^(talk) 23:28, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Some individuals may have prejudice or hatred against Russians due to history

It is a very vague and fuzzy wording that makes zero sence.

I propose to replace the umbrella "history" term with the specific "due to numerous Russian crimes against humanity" or "due to the ethnical cleanses performed by Russians". 176.113.167.189 (talk) 14:40, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Do you realise how this sounds? Collective blame, ethnic hatred, dehumanisation — that’s not “history,” that’s racism 101. You don’t get to call for ethnic cleansing and pretend you’re objective..

Replace “Russians” in your sentence with “Jews” and you’ve got Hitler’s speech. That’s how racist you sound.

What you wrote isn’t analysis, it’s fascist bile. Condemning millions of people as criminals because of their ethnicity is precisely the thinking that built Auschwitz. If that’s the ground you stand on, you’ve lost the argument before you begin. 159.196.168.17 (talk) 06:30, 28 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]