Sentences with phrase «ethnic chauvinism posed»

He warned about the dangers that ethnic chauvinism posed to the territorial integrity of the Russian state: «I am convinced that the attempts to preach the idea of a «national» or monoethnic Russian state contradict our thousand - year history,» he averred, «this is a shortcut to destroying the Russian people and Russian statehood, and for that matter any viable, sovereign statehood on the planet» (Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 2014).