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Kyrgyzstan: Neo-Nazis in Russia Target Central Asians

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 @ 05:35 UTC

by Adil Nurmakov

Countries:: Kyrgyzstan
Topics:: Diaspora, Ethnicity, Human Rights

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The Azamat Report says that many people in Kyrgyzstan are learning more about neo-Nazism in Russian because of increasing number of cases of murder and violent attacks againsts Kyrgyz immigrant workers in Russia.

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