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    MINORITIES STABBED OVER WEEKEND

    The Moscow Times, Russia
    July 3 2006

    Assailants stabbed two ethnic Armenian students, a Kazakh student
    and two Uzbeks in three separate incidents in Moscow over the weekend.

    It was unclear whether any of the attacks would be classified as hate
    crimes or were at all connected. But they all occurred amid growing
    fears of racism and xenophobia and a sharp uptick in skinhead activity
    in Russia.

    Two Armenian teenagers were stabbed during a fight on the platform
    of the Kuznetsky Most metro station around 5 p.m. Saturday, Interfax
    reported. The two were hospitalized with various stab wounds; the
    attackers fled the scene.

    The attack was being investigated as hooliganism, city prosecutors'
    spokesman Sergei Marchenko said.

    Meanwhile, a Kazakh man studying at Moscow's Military Engineering
    Academy was attacked by a group of 10 teenagers, including four women,
    Interfax said. He was also hospitalized and was reportedly in stable
    condition.

    Also Saturday, two Uzbek citizens were hospitalized with multiple stab
    wounds after being attacked in southwestern Moscow, Interfax said. The
    two were hospitalized in serious condition, police officials said.
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