population-policy

We should, however, not forget that ethnic cleansing, especially of nonwhite Muslim peoples, has old historical roots in Russia. John Dunlop, for instance, reminds us that __n May 1856, Count Kiselev, minister of state domains, informed officials in the Crimea that Alexander [tsar Alexander II] was interested in __leansing_ (Kiselev used the verb oshishchat_) Crimea of as many Tatars as possible._ That the tsarist empire was interested in annexing foreign lands, but not in annexing foreign peoples, was expressed by the famous remark of a tsarist minister that __ussia needs Armenia, but she has no need of Armenians._ [192]