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Chechens Flee Racial Violence, Fault Authorities

By Gregory Feifer

Published September 7, 2006 at 1:00 PM PDT

This story was published more than 18 years ago.

An explosion of race-motivated violence in northwest Russia has Chechens and other natives of the country's southern Caucasus region fleeing their homes. Mobs attacked houses and businesses owned by people from the Russian Caucasus after two Northern Russians were killed in a bar fight.

Those fleeing say regional officials and police aren't protecting them from the biggest explosion of hate crimes since the Communist collapse.

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Gregory Feifer

Gregory Feifer reports for NPR from Moscow, covering Russia's resurgence under President Vladimir Putin and the country's transition to the post-Putin era. He files from other former Soviet republics and across Russia, where he's observed the effects of the country's vast new oil wealth on an increasingly nationalistic society as well as Moscow's rekindling of a new Cold War-style opposition to the West.

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