Ethnic imigrant circles in Moskow demand restraint of rasist crimes.

Leaders of imigrants groups in Moskow - Turkmen, Tadziks and Kyrgyz - during a meeting with Moskow's authorities 18th February stated a sharp protest against a growing wave of murders of national minorities.

They accused the Russian law authorities of tolerating crimes against on ethnic minorities by describing them as hooliganism and giving the feeling of impugnity to the murderers.

They warn that the consequence of racist aggression can be change of attitude in countries which were former Soviet Republics, and retaliation attacks in the Commonwealth of Independent States. According to information which was cited, last year Russian nationalists killed 50 Azeris, 30 Georgians and about 100 people from the Central Asian republics. And only in the last month in Moskow 7 people from the Commonwealth of Independent States were killed.

According to : Free Caucasus Committee