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    RUSSIA INVESTIGATES ATTACKS ON MINORITIES
    By Anton Troianovski, Associated Press Writer

    Hinesberg Journal, Canada
    July 3 2006

    MOSCOW - Prosecutors said Monday that they are investigating the
    weekend stabbings of five ethnic minorities as hate crimes.

    Russia has seen a wave of 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.

    Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian condemned the attacks
    and urged Russia to do more to head off a rising tide of violent
    xenophobia.

    Meanwhile, three suspects in the Saturday stabbing of a Kazakh
    citizen were arrested for a racially motivated crime, the Interfax
    news agency reported.

    Alexander Brod, who heads the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, said
    the surge in attacks might be tied to two high-profile conferences
    that opened in the capital on Monday before a summit of the Group of
    Eight major industrialized nations that begins next week in St.
    Petersburg.

    Interfax quoted an Armenian community leader, Ara Abramian, as saying
    the attacks were "a direct provocation before the G-8 meeting,"
    and sharply criticized Moscow law enforcement for failing to prevent
    such assaults.
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