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    ASSAILANTS ATTACK ARMENIANS, UZBEKS, KAZAKH MAN IN 3 SEPARATE INCIDENTS IN MOSCOW

    AP Worldstream
    Jul 02, 2006

    Assailants stabbed two ethnic Armenian students, a Kazakh student
    and two Uzbeks in three separate incidents in Moscow, Russian news
    reports said Sunday.

    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 a subway platform
    around 5 p.m. (1300 GMT) 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 was quoted by RIA-Novosti as saying.

    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 district of the Russian
    capital, Interfax said. The two were hospitalized in serious condition,
    police officials said.

    City police officials could not be reached to confirm the reports or
    comment on whether they were connected.

    Russia has seen a wave of xenophobia and hate crimes in recent years,
    with hundreds of attacks reported, including many on dark-skinned
    immigrants from former Soviet Central Asia and the Caucasus Mountains
    region.

    Rights activists say hate groups are emboldened by authorities'
    mild approach to prosecuting hate crimes, and say that neo-Nazi and
    extremist literature is sold freely.

    Two ethnic Armenian teenagers were fatally stabbed in the Moscow
    region this spring in what Armenian officials called blatant examples
    of hate crimes in Russia.
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