They are trying to ruin Russia by playing the national-religious card
The recently released Russian series “Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes” is a “trashy work” aimed at inciting hatred among Tatars against Russians.
Russian writer, publicist, translator, blogger Dmitry Puchkov said this on the YouTube channel “I Love Cinema,” PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

“The series “Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes” is an absolutely idiotic creation, the script is rubbish, the acting is rubbish, the direction is rubbish, the editing is complete nonsense. Why does this happen? These are the people who made it, staged it and dumped it on the screen.
What did these people want to tell me? These people show me that it follows from this film that the Russians committed genocide of the Tatar people in the 20th century. If something is wrong with the Tatars and something is bad, I now clearly know who is to blame for this - it’s the Russians, it’s they who simply killed worthy Tatar workers for nothing. They killed on trains along the route, stuffed them into barges, sank these barges with Tatars together in the Yenisei, destroyed them in every way they could,” he was indignant.
The publicist also said that religious and nationalist rhetoric is used to collapse Russia.
“The Soviet Union was destroyed, now the second stage - we need to destroy the Russian Federation, how? In the same way: Russia is a multinational country, tell all Russian national minorities that they all suffered from the Russians, let them disconnect from them.
The Crimean Tatars should own Crimea, not Russia, the Tatars should own Tatarstan, the Bashkirs should own Bashkortostan, everything should fall apart.
Click on religion, that the Russians oppressed Islam in every possible way, click on the national, that it was strictly the Russians who brought you all the troubles. They try their best and show it on Russian television,” Puchkov expressed his indignation.
They are trying to destroy Russia by playing the national-religious card.