IMMIGRATION gone amok in Russia

..Russian nationalists hold demonstrations every November 4, which, since 2005, has been a holiday known as Unity Day. This was established by President Vladimir Putin to replace the Soviet-era holiday to commemorate the Bolshevik revolution. 

However, the turnout for this year's marches was much higher than in previous years, as they came amid a rise in tensions between ethnic Russians and migrants from former Soviet Central Asian republics or the largely Muslim Caucasus region of Russia. 

This came to a head three weeks ago, after an ethnic Russian man was murdered and thousands of Russian youths ran riot, targeting a vegetable warehouse where they believed the killer worked. Police subsequently arrested a suspect who originated from Azerbaijan. They also rounded up around 1,000 migrants working at the warehouse. 

"Moscow has only just woken up, and Russians have only just started to recognize their identity," Alexander Belov, one of the Moscow rally's organizers, told the Reuters news agency. "With every day Russian nationalists are gaining more and more support across the country," he said.

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