Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Moscow police arrest 500 as ethnic tensions linger

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian news agencies say Moscow police have arrested 500 people to stop them attending rival protests over the killing of a soccer fan and the ethnic violence that erupted after the slaying.

A young Moscow man was fatally shot with rubber bullets during a fight with people from the Russia's Caucasus region at a bus stop this month.

People from the Caucasus are typically darker-skinned than northern Russians and many are Muslim. They have traditionally been victims of ethnic …

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