MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police detained hundreds of nationalist youths on Tuesday who gathered to protest over the killing of an ethnic Russian in southern Moscow, hours after authorities arrested a migrant labourer suspected of the slaying.
The killing of Yegor Shcherbakov, 25, unleashed earlier this week the worst race riots Moscow has seen in three years and nationalists threatened further protests in areas populated by migrant workers from ex-Soviet Central Asia and Caucasus states.
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