Russian racism “out of control”

The BBC reports on a spate of attacks by racist thugs on non-whites of all types in Russia, including local Roma and foreign students and other visitors, which included the stabbing to death of a nine-year-old Tajid girl in front of her father in St Petersburg in 2004 and another stabbing of a nine-year-old girl (of mixed Russian-African parentage) earlier this year. In the former case the jury sympathised with the teenage attackers and convicted them of “hooliganism” but not murder. It is also known that the police do not do much to protect people from this violence. (Also see here and here.

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