Russian Youths Protest Attacks on Foreign Students

An estimated 1,000 young people marched through a provincial city in Russia last month in an uncommon display of interethnic unity against racist violence that recently claimed the life of a college student from Peru.

The protest, which was organized by a Kremlin-backed youth organization, was carried out without the approval of the city government in Voronezh, located about 300 miles south of Moscow. Foreign and local college students joined the ranks of student activists from a

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