July 7, 2006

Dangerous Times in Russia

By BRYON MACWILLIAMS

Foreign students tread carefully as xenophobic groups flourish

"Let's walk. It's faster. ... And cheaper." The bespectacled graduate student, a Moroccan who goes by the nickname Simo, sets off at a swift pace along Revolution Prospect, away from Lenin Square and deeper into downtown — a wedge of land between railroad tracks and a mammoth water reservoir. The heart of the city can be found here, on streets that are laid out as if they were dropped onto a map like pick-up

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