Some truth to that, though not all Russians are like that. As far as the Chechens go though, my friend Velych once explained it to me thusly in one of our email exchanges:
"I don’t know how to explain. The matter is that we have a great problem with chechens. They are formally the part of our country but really they are on their own. They are not people, they are actually wild beasts. No more. None of them walks alone but always in groups. They are absolutely uneducated people and low-life of civilization. Only imagine. They are taught from childhood that work is a destiny of loosers. “If you are a Man you mustn’t work. Work is a shame for you. You must be a gagster. You are a son of mountains and you have to skim and strong-arm everybody who works. Work is weakness”. If you wear gun or knife you are a respectable person for them. They rape women, kill man and cry about human rights. They control only (prostitution, drug traffic plus weapons) no IT and no highly skilled crimes. They corrupt policemen and work with them. But now they enter FSB academy our analogue of FBI(domestic events and incredible crimes).
Interracial difficulties are the difficulty of any multinational country America, Russia. We have interracial difficulties but Chechens are too much.
It’s ridiculous to hear about them for example in London crying about loyalty, crimes and justice.
There are some links to understand recent history of our relations but collisions have historical roots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chechen_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budyonnovsk_hospital_hostage_crisis
Collisions have historical roots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_War and many other links you can find websurfing Wikipedia.
One of their idioms is "Орлы над нами, козлы под нами". Eagles are above us goats are below us. Goat(Козёл) is a very strong curse in Russian and has a very-very negarive meaning smth. like slang "prick or faggot" in English. These days we have collisions in Moscow. We are focused on these events. One of Russian Spartak Moscow football club fan was killed by 7 of caucasians. The man who used a gun had no licence. They were immediately taken to jail, their supporters from expat community came and bribed the policemen and took them out of the police station. The wife of a killed guy used a mobile phone and called to FSB. Some of caucasians were captured later but some managed to leave the county. Groups or citizens take part in strikes and turn down motorways in Moscow. There were two massive collisions between caucasians and Russians. Tons of policemen tried to prevent rage explosions but some peope were killed. You can watch it in Youtube or in newssites. Smth like these (Fight on Maneshnay square "Драка на Манежной площади" or "Фанаты перекрыли Ленингадку", "Драка с кавказцами около Европейского")
Finally, I don't believe in their innocence. Don't believe in every a word.
p.s. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not a nationalist at all. I don’t care of colour and origin of people but they are savages.
Sorry, the letter is coarse but the theme is very alive."