Students in Russia Call for Protection

Several hundred foreign students demonstrated last month in Voronezh, in western Russia, to protest the failure of authorities in the city to protect them from racist attacks, the latest of which resulted in the death of a second-year medical student from West Africa.

Authorities in Voronezh have yet to make any arrests in the seven race-based murders of foreign students there since 1998. They rarely investigate, let alone file charges, on the recurring harassment and beatings of

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