Violent Protests Spur Moscow Authorities into Action
By Max Musson: Keen not to see a repeat of the violent nationalist demonstrations that shook Moscow three years ago, the police and authorities have reacted quickly in the hope of placating angry Russians furious at the continuing wave of murders committed by immigrants and by the continuing presence of large numbers of central Asian immigrants in their city. In the latest round of protests, residents of the Biryulyovo district in southern Moscow took to…