Skinheads Killed 18 People since Beginning of 2006

PanARMENIAN.Net - 107 people have suffered from assaults through national hatred since the beginning of the year in Russia. 18 of them were killed. 10 people were killed in Moscow, 38 were injured. 4 people were killed in Saint Petersburg, 20 were injured. Skinheads' assaults were registered in over 15 regions of Russia. If earlier skinheads assaulted the natives of Caucasus and Central Asia, now representatives of youth subcultures and sexual minorities also fell into the risk group," the edition writes.



The human rights activists think that some 50 thousand skinheads commit outrages in Russia. "With the high level of xenophobia in Russia the number of staunch right radicals is not so important, since a small sparkle is enough to make passive xenophobes (about 60% of the population) active," this is the data provided by Amnesty International in the report on xenophobia in Russia, the newspaper says.