MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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By Gabriela Baczynska and Igor Belyatski in Moscow, Reuters, Oct 14, 2013
Russian police rounded up more than 1,600 migrants on Monday in Moscow after rioting swept through a southern neighborhood over a fatal stabbing of a Russian that many residents blame on a man from the Caucasus region. [....]
Migrant labor has played a significant role in Russia's transformation during an oil-fuelled economic boom that took off around the time President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000.
But many in Moscow are uneasy at the influx of migrants from Russia's heavily Muslim North Caucasus and ex-Soviet states of the Caucasus and Central Asia, although many do low-paying jobs, such as in construction, that few local residents want. "They come here and act as if it were their home," local Biryulyovo resident Tatiana said.
In an apparent attempt to appease residents, police said they rounded up some 1,200 people detained at a wholesale vegetable market that had been stormed on Sunday night.
Another 450 were detained in northeastern Moscow, also near a vegetable market employing migrant workers.
Police said they were all detained to check whether they were involved in any wrongdoing, but they have not been accused of any specific crime. Footage showed detainees standing against walls or lined up in front of camouflage-clad police [....]
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Moscow anti-migrant riot: TIMELINE, Russia Today, October 14, 2013
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/14/2013 - 8:08pm