Russia market bomb marks new level in race attacks

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Russia market bomb marks new level in race attacks

By Christian Lowe
Reuters
Wednesday, August 23, 2006; 7:52 AM

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A bomb blast this week at a multi-ethnic market in Moscow
that killed 10 people marked a dramatic escalation in a violent campaign by
Russian far-right militants against immigrants.

Russia has seen a wave of racially-motivated attacks but until Monday's bombing
most were no more sophisticated than youths with shaved heads attacking
dark-skinned people in the street, many of them immigrants from poor ex-Soviet
republics.

Prosecutors said they had charged two students with racially-motivated murder
over the bombing. A third man was being questioned. Racist literature and
bomb-making materials were found in their dormitory, said prosecutors.

"What we are talking about is a group that was deep underground and which used
techniques that amount to terrorism," said Vladimir Novitsky, legal director of the
non-governmental Moscow Human Rights Bureau.

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