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Right-wingers Clash With Police as Locals Call for Expulsion of Chechens in Northern Russia
02.09.2006
MosNews
Right-wing nationalists and residents in a northern Russian town clashed with riot police and destroyed a restaurant, rights activists and witnesses said Saturday, days after a fight between ethnic Russians and ethnic Chechens left several people dead, The Associated Press reports.
Police in the town of Kondopoga, about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles), north of Moscow, denied any serious disturbances took place. Police in the Karelia region, where Kondopoga is located, said there had been “small hooliganism” in the town.
But Alexander Vekhorovsky, head of the Moscow-based human rights center Sova, told The Associated Press that right-wing nationalists were traveling to the remote town amid calls from anti-immigrants groups to attack Chechens and other people from Russia’s southern Caucasus regions.
Vekhorovsky said a group of Russian and Chechen men clashed earlier ...
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