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    CONCERN AS MOSCOW SEES RISE IN RACE-HATE CRIMES
    Anton Troianovski

    http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/inter national.cfm?id=972892006
    Last updated: 04-Jul-06 01:33 BST

    RUSSIAN prosecutors said yesterday they considered the stabbing of
    five victims from ethnic minorities a hate crime, following a spate
    of attacks on dark-skinned people in Moscow this weekend.

    Four Armenians and an Azerbaijani were attacked by about 15 assailants
    at a subway station on Saturday. Russia has seen a wave of xenophobia
    and hate crimes in recent years, with hundreds of attacks reported,
    including many on immigrants from the former Soviet Central Asia and
    the Caucasus Mountains region.

    Rights activists say hate groups are emboldened by a "mild" approach
    to prosecutions, and that neo-Nazi and extremist literature is
    sold freely.

    Vardan Oskanian, the Armenian foreign minister, denounced the attack,
    and called on Russia to do more to head off the rise in violent
    xenophobia.

    Alexander Brod, who heads the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, said that
    the surge in attacks might be tied to two high-profile conferences
    that opened in the capital on Monday before a G8 summit that begins
    next week in St Petersburg, as extremists sought publicity.
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