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  • Angry Mobs Take to Kondopoga's Streets

    09/03/2006 4:39:30 PM PDT · by A. Pole · 14 replies · 908+ views
    Moscow Times ^ | Monday, September 4, 2006 | Simon Saradzhyan
    The northwestern industrial town of Kondopoga was consumed by ethnic violence over the weekend, with angry and often drunken bands of Slavs waging an uncoordinated series of attacks on natives of the Caucasus. The violence included mobs with Molotov cocktails burning down Caucasian-owned businesses and natives of the Caucasus being forced out of town. An air of fear and uncertainty permeated the town Sunday The angry mobs, which left the town of 37,000 pockmarked with storefront fires and shattered glass, stemmed from a fight Wednesday evening outside the Chaika restaurant in which two ethnic Russians were killed. A group of...