Violence and harassment in Russia
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Man killed in Moscow racist attack
A man from the Caucasus was killed and Russian citizen of Spanish origin was injured in what appeared to be racially-motivated attacks in Moscow on 19 December.
22 December 2004 (90 words)
Gypsy girl's killers sentenced
The seven defendants, found guilty of murdering a six-year-old Tajik gypsy girl near St Petersburg on 21 September 2003, were sentenced: two to 10 years imprisonment, one to 7 years, two to 2.5 years and two minors to suspended sentences.
10 December 2004 (100 words)
Racist attacks rise after Beslan
Racist attacks on dark-skinned people from the Caucasus and elsewhere have risen in seriousness since the Beslan school siege and the downing of two planes, allegedly in terrorist actions.
19 October 2004 (349 words)
Convictions and arrests
Voronezh court convicts racist murderers
1 October 2004 (186 words)
Muslim soldiers escape harassment
Eight Russian Muslim soldiers escaped their special forces unit based in south Moscow after being beaten by their colleagues following the Beslan school tragedy.
22 September 2004 (32 words)
Human rights and anti-racist campaigners at risk
It appears from developments over the last few months that to oppose racism and fascism and to campaign for human rights are dangerous pursuits which can bring retribution from both neo-Nazis and state authorities.
22 September 2004 (303 words)
Synagogue burned
On 27 July in Irkutsk, fire gutted a building housing a synagogue and Jewish cultural centre.
29 July 2004 (23 words)
Levels of attacks cause concern
According to a two-year study by the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, there are about 50,000 skinheads in Russia, with 1,500 in both Moscow and St Petersburg.
10 June 2004 (115 words)
Two diplomats' sons killed
Two young men, sons of diplomats, were knifed to death within weeks of one another.
10 June 2004 (97 words)
Racism rife: Muslim minorities and Third World students targeted
Racist violence against both Third World students studying in Russia and against Muslim members of former Soviet republics is rife in Russia and skinheads are identified as the main culprits.
18 May 2004 (312 words)
Pakistani student killed in Ulyanovsk
A Pakistani medical student was beaten to death in an apparent robbery in his apartment on 4 May.
12 May 2004 (80 words)
Death in Volgograd market rampage
One man died and twenty others were injured on 7 April as dozens of youths armed with metal bars and chains rampaged through the central clothes market in Volgograd.
13 April 2004 (411 words)
Afghan murdered in Moscow
Abdul Wase, 27, fled to Moscow to escape the Taliban in 1998.
4 April 2004 (75 words)
African student stabbed to death in Voronezh
On February 21 Amaro Antonio Limo, a student from Guinea-Bissau, was stabbed to death in broad daylight just meters from the Medical Academy where he studied.
26 March 2004 (427 words)
Girl, 9, stabbed to death in St. Petersburg
On 9 February Khurshida Sultanova, a nine-year-old girl from Tajikstan was stabbed to death by a group of skinheads armed with knives and bats.
20 February 2004 (134 words)
AI demands action on racial violence
Amnesty International (AI) has called on the Russian authorities to protect all its citizens, including Chechens, from incitement to racial hatred, in accordance with the law.
18 February 2004 (136 words)
Arson attacks on mosques
A number of mosques have been set on fire since the beginning of Ramadan.
20 November 2003 (67 words)
Rostov: skinheads on trial for migrant murders
Twelve skinheads have gone on trial in Rostov accused of beating to death in unprovoked racist attacks three men from the Central Asian republics of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in Volgograd in October 2002.
30 July 2003 (113 words)
St Petersburg: skinheads attack hospital for sick children
On 9 March, a gang of at least 15 skinheads, aged between 14 and 18, invaded the emergency department at St. Petersburg's Centre of Child Psychiatry and Rehabilitation Therapy, destroying property, abusing staff and intimidating patients.
30 May 2003 (227 words)
Moscow survey: police greatest threat to foreigners
The first of four surveys, commissioned by the Moscow local authority in order to gauge the city's image abroad, has found that foreigners living in Russia consider the police the greatest threat to their personal safety.
29 April 2003 (177 words)
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