I actually could not say, but my impression at least is that there were not very many racist remarks about Obama in the Russian blogosphere. Still, when going over a lot of blogs on a daily basis, one tends to ignore those with hateful speech, racist or sexist remarks.

I guess it is a way of sorting out what is worthwhile reading and what is not, of course, in the process risking the fallacy of missing out on developments that would deserve greater attention.

I personally felt this problematic in connection to last year’s conflict between Russia and Georgia, where I was hesitant on whether to ignore too overt sentiments of hate or include them to illustrate feelings in the blogosphere.

So, there is not a really good answer to your question, except for my quite subjective impression that Obama was not subjected to racist remarks on any larger scale.

Still, judging from my piece on blog reactions, and also Karina Alexanyan’s of Internet & Democracy Blog, comments were rather scarce and Obama’s visit not very well covered by Russian bloggers.

Yours,

Vilhelm