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Jul 25 2008, Sharmila Chakravorty

The incidents of hate crime in the Russian capital have risen six-fold in the first half of 2008, the prosecutor general’s office said Friday. “A total of 73 crimes that fall under this category have been registered in Moscow, up almost six times...

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