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| | Mass arrests after Russian revenge attacks | The Courier-Mail (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Hundreds of local residents took to the streets to protest yesterday in the northwestern town of Kondopoga near Russia's border with Finland after a bar fight between ethnic Caucasians and ethnic Russians killed two Russians on Tuesday, a police spokesman said. |
 | | Alexander Verkhovsky of the NGO Sova, which studies xenophobic crime, said that DNPI had sent a delegation from Moscow to Kondopoga, and accused them of using the incident to inflame ethnic hatred. |
 | | Sergei Katanandov, head of the Karelia region where Kondopoga is located, said in comments broadcast live on local television Sunday that the anger of local residents was justified. |
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