Migrants blamed for Russia riots
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The governor of the northern Russian region of Karelia blames migrants from the Caucasus for ethnic violence.
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LONDON/MOSCOW  - Britain accused Russia of "conduct not worthy of a great country" on Thursday after what it called a campaign of intimidation by security services forced its cultural centers in two Russian cities to halt operations.
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For more than a week, protestors have filled the streets of Kiev in the Ukraine.
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Russian riot police fired  warning shots into the air and beat demonstrators who tried to  rally on Saturday against alleged vote-rigging in the Muslim  region of Ingushetia, a witness said.
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Seattle&#39;s Russian community reacted with a mixture of sorrow, anger and frustration yesterday: sorrow for the children who died in the hostage crisis at a school in Beslan, Russia; anger
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A brawl between hundreds of Caucasus migrants and local Russians &#151; all armed with metal rods, clubs and knives &#151; killed an ethnic Chechen in southern Russia, officials said Saturday.
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NAZRAN, Russia  - Russian riot police fired warning shots into the air and beat demonstrators who tried to rally on Saturday against alleged vote-rigging in the Muslim region of Ingushetia, a witness said.
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MOSCOW - Russian officials accused terrorists Friday after the wreckage of one of two crashed jetliners revealed traces of an explosive used in earlier attacks blamed on Chechen rebels, while an Islamic group claimed its suicide attackers brought down both planes.    At least one crash was "the result of a terrorist act," a spokesman for the Federal Security Service, Sergei Ignatchenko, told the ITAR-Tass news agency...
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The Russian authorities say they plan to limit the number of foreign migrants allowed in for work.
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MOSCOW, Jan 24 (IPS) - Authorities have started granting work permits to  some six million illegal immigrants from the ex-Soviet republics  that have visa-free travel agreements with Russia. But the  workers would be banned from working in certain areas.
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An "ambitious and unachievable" policy of removing failed asylum seekers led to a major fire and riots at a key detention centre, says a report.
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Hundreds of locals rallied in the town of Stavropol in southern Russia on Tuesday, demanding the eviction of ethnic Chechens, witnesses and media said, reviving memories of racial riots in other parts of the country.
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Human rights violations in the Russian region of Ingushetia have soared and a repeat of the systematic abuses in neighboring Chechnya is unacceptable, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
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MOSCOW : Attacks by Chechen separatists late Saturday in Grozny, the capital of the Russian breakaway republic, left people several dead, including pro-Russian policemen, Russian news agencies reported, quoting pro-Russian officials.
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A brawl between hundreds of Caucasus migrants and local Russians &#151; all armed with metal rods, baseball bats and knives &#151; killed an ethnic Chechen in southern Russia, officials said Saturday.
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Russia prepared to deport about 130  Georgian "illegal immigrants" on Friday, stepping up a vigorous  campaign by Moscow to bring its southern neighbor to heel,  Russian agencies reported.
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ODESSA, Ukraine  - A statue of Catherine the Great has sparked a fierce row in the multi-ethnic Ukrainian port of Odessa, with riot police confronting Cossack demonstrators in the street after midnight.