Elite OMON troops Wednesday arrested more than 1,300 people suspected of trying to provoke inter-ethnic conflict in central Moscow between Russian natives and those born in the Caucasus. Russian experts speak of a true spiral of violence and warn the inability of the authorities to solve the problem.
National and youth policy mistakes will be repaired by OMON troops. Hundreds of people detained by the police and a balance sheet capital is scared of confrontation Wednesday “Russians” nationalists and young Caucasian origin.
Witnesses said the Militia has learned from mistakes last Saturday, in Manej Square, the Russian capital’s downtown, two steps from Red Square and the Kremlin. Then, at a rally of supporters of the football club Spartak Moscow, thousands of young people chanted “Russia for Russians” and caused the clash with police.
Since then, the Internet has become the place where thousands of young people from both sides – Russian nationalists and those originating in the Caucasus – have placed messages urging the clashes in the street.
The police in Moscow and St.Petersburg acted preventive Wednesday, operating the arrests as youth people made their appearance in designated places.
Nobody questions the fact that the meeting call at the Kiev railway station in Moscow, launched by young Caucasian origin and circulated on the Internet, accompanied by the urge to give the Russians a lesson has been a challenge.
Such calls have come from fans of soccer clubs Andji, Terek Grozny, Alania Vladikavskaz and Spartak Nalchik. Many have responded to the call, such as, for mid-day Wednesday, “conflict” camps began to arrive at the meeting.
Law enforcement officials, including employees of OMON troops are convinced that things will not stop here and that mass demonstrations and street violence will continue. In the entire Moscow 1346 people were detained, of which nearly 500 at Kiev station and another 200 on access roads to this meeting.
There have been confiscated 16 rifles and 208 air knives, and 260 other objects that could be used as weapons: baseball bats or hammers.