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Indian student stabbed in Russia
Apr. 20, 2006 at 2:25PM

An Indian student in Russia was stabbed Wednesday in St. Petersburg, scene of a recent string of what is suspected to be racially motivated attacks.

The student was hospitalized with knife injuries in the neck and remained in satisfactory condition, RIA-Novosti reported.

The student was believed to have been attacked by two men but police did not give details.

On Tuesday, an African student in the city was shot dead with a rifle marked with a swastika and earlier this month, two Mongolian students were beaten up in the city subway, the report said. In another incident this month, a Chinese student was attacked outside her apartment, while a 9-year-old girl of mixed Russian and African origin was hospitalized last month after being stabbed near her apartment.

Separately, the Itar-Tass news agency reported a youth group called Nashi has sent anti-fascist patrols to Moscow in a bid to prevent neo-Nazi supporters from rioting on the anniversary of Adolf Hitler's birth.

A Nashi news release said the Hitler advocates "do not realize that Russia is a multinational state whose very existence depends on cooperation of people of different races, nationalities, religions and cultural traditions."