Attacks on Foreign Students Decried by Russia's Education Minister

Russia's top education official conceded this month that the government cannot protect foreign students from racist attacks, and he called on colleges to work more closely with the police in dealing with the widespread problem.

The acknowledgment by Andrei Fursenko, minister of education and science, marked a departure from the government's practice of attributing such attacks around the country to mere acts of hooliganism. His comments came hours after an African student died of

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