Financial Times (UK) June 14, 2003 Black in the USSR Xenophobia is on the increase in Russia, propelled by groups of violent extremists. Their victims, says Hugh Barnes, range from embassy elite to a few hundred black students, marooned when the collapse of the Soviet system cut off their financial support
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^^^^^^^ CB: How slick that the title of an article in 2003 is "in the USSR". Sort of trying to cheat on the question of whether the widespread racist violence described in the article is a phenomenon of Russia since it became capitalist, precisely one of the changes from the USSR.