Moscow clashes put authorities in a quandary

By artappraiser on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 1:43pm |

By Will Englund, Washington Post Foreign News Service, December 13, 2010

MOSCOW....The riots by right-wing nationalists and extremists have put political leaders on the spot: How should they go about cracking down on a movement that up until now has typically been a useful right flank for those in power?

The Kremlin has spent the past decade nurturing nationalist sentiment in Russia, especially among the young. Now, hundreds and sometimes thousands of furious young men have been gathering at varying places around Moscow and other cities, shouting nationalist slogans, making fascist salutes and beating up darker-skinned people who appear to be from the Caucasus or Central Asia....

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