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Kremlin Urged To Curb Racist Violence
April 27, 2006
Police at Moscow's Hasid Synagogue, which was attacked in January (file photo) (ITAR-TASS)
The ethnic Armenian and Tajik communities say urgent action is needed to prevent the spread of xenophobia.
Russia has seen a number of deadly attacks on minorities, dark-skinned foreigners, and Russian Jews in recent months. In the most recent, a Tajik man and an Armenian were killed in two separate incidents earlier this week.
In another incident late on April 26, youths in the southwestern Siberian city of Orenburg vandalized a Jewish synagogue, leaving anti-Semitic graffiti on its walls. A 15-year-old was detained.
(AFP)