Immigrants killed on Unity Day
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Russian youths killed two people from Central Asia and assaulted two others, including a Turkmen diplomat, in separate attacks that came on a national holiday celebrating Russian unity, officials said.
The 3-year-old National Unity Day has increasingly been used by ultranationalists and fascist groups to rail against dark-skinned immigrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia.
The Turkmen Embassy in Moscow said that one of its staffers was hospitalized after dozens of youths attacked him Tuesday outside the consular section in central Moscow.
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