Entries by Andrew Biliter (December, 2008)

December 21, 4:29 PM

You Are Not Free to Move About the Country

In parts of the U.S., you can still get pulled over for a DWB (Driving While Black). In Russia, it's WWT (Walking While Tajik). Migrant workers — and brown people in general — from Central Asia and the Caucasus are constantly being stopped by Moscow's police and made to show their passports. The interaction often ends with a bribe. RUSSIA! illustator Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva has depicted this familiar scene on, of all things, a passport holder.
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