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October 15, 2013

Russia: Police Round Up 1,600 Migrants After Anti-Migrant Riots 
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In Russia, police rounded up more than 1,600 migrants in Moscow Monday,
a day after anti-immigrant riots that marked the worst such violence in
nearly three years. On Sunday, thousands of Russian nationalists flipped
cars, smashed windows and tried to break into a migrant-run vegetable
market. The riots followed the killing last week of a Russian man by an
attacker thought to be of Caucasian or Central Asian origin. Hundreds
were detained during the riots, but most have been released without
charge. On Monday, police raided the vegetable market, loaded migrants
into vans, and said some were being probed for possible criminal ties.

 

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