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Moscow Killings Blamed on Racism: Non-Slavs Targeted, Rights Groups Say

Date: April 8, 2008

Author: Peter Finn

QUOTE: The killing of [a Moscow man], which remains under investigation, is part of a wave of racially motivated murders in Moscow that has put the city's migrant communities on edge, particularly people from Central Asia, according to human rights groups. Easily singled out because of their non-Slavic appearance, Central Asian workers have borne the brunt of the attacks by skinheads and neo-Nazis.

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• Dmitry Medvedev

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  • Motivation/Rewards/Punishments
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• Law & Justice
  • Civil Rights / Equal Protection
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  • Azerbaijan
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  • Georgia
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