Black man runs for governor in Russia for the first time in history




37 year-old Joakim Krema from Guinea-Bissau has announced a desire to run for the head of one of the districts of Volgograd region. The senior of the Russian Pedagogic University moved to Volgograd 12 years ago.

Krema lives in the Sredneakhtubinsk district of Volgograd region, Southern Russia, and considers himself Russian. He always introduces himself as Vasily Ivanovich, using the Russian honorific of a Patronymic name. He took this name in honor of the famous Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War, Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev.

Russian newspapers have already nicknamed him “Volgograd’s Obama”.

Krema has promised to the citizens of Sredneakhtubinsk that he will toil like a Negro for the prosperity of the district.

Now the prospective governor is selling watermelons at the Volgograd-Akhtubinsk route, not far from the billboards with his picture and the inscription “Vasily Krima. The new head of the district”.

According to the report, Volgograd’s citizens consider that Krima’s nomination is an advantage to the current head of Sredneakhtubinsk Vladimir Romanov. They think that Romanov wants to look much more impressive against Krima’s background. The candidates have not yet commented on this.

Elections will take place on October 11, 2009.


@ http://www.mosnews.com/society/2009/07/22/blackrussian/

this dudes just askin to get murdered

Ugh does he have to sell watermelons and go around saying "toil like a negro"?

Dude might have a legitimate shot in an election if he took himself seriously.

double post

he's gonna get killed but good luck to him anyway.

Major-General Abram Petrovich Gannibal, also Hannibal or Ganibal or Ibrahim Hannibal or Abram Petrov, (1696 – 14 May[1]1781) was an African prince who was brought to Russia by Peter the Great and became major-general, military engineer and governor of Reval. He is perhaps best known today as the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, who wrote an unfinished novel about him, Peter the Great's Negro.

This man is not the first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Petrovich_Gannibal

Any news lately?

He won't win. I hear Russians are really racists. Look how they treat asians out there.

Hes not likely to win judging by all the neo-nazis there. I wonder why he even bothers to try. Its like putting a big target on yourself

Been reading threads about the situation in Russia and it's mostly a negative outlook for this guy. Most russians hate immigrants and blame them for stealing their jobs, add in the fact that he sticks out like a sore thumb in the street and you have a recipe for disaster. Even most non racist russians will sympathise with the racists or are merely indifferent. Many skinheads, being unemployed due to tough economic times now have even more time to propagate their ideologies to a frustrated and poor generation of people. I think the numbers of nazis has been estimated to be around 200,000+ and it's really organized like the gangs, drug dealers in parts of America. They have training camps, vodka bars, rallies, probably their own TV station. The government allows them to rule the streets at night and it's even seeped into the upper echelons of society.

Even if you're a foreign causcasian and they hear you speaking english, they'll mug you.