Tuesday, February 14, 2012

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Six Charged Over Killings In Karelia

Police in Kondopoga cordon off demonstrations against local Chechens in Kondopoga on September 3 (ITAR-TASS)

September 12, 2006 -- Prosecutors in Russia's Karelia region have charged one person with murder and five others with hooliganism following a bar fight that left two people dead in the northwestern town of Kondopoga.

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September 12, 2006

All six suspects are reportedly natives of the Caucasus.

The deaths on August 30 sparked attacks on Chechen-owned businesses.

The Karelian authorities have opened more than a dozen criminal investigations into the attacks.

(ITAR-TASS, Interfax)

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