Sep. 13, 2006 at 1:52PM
Protests and vandalism have followed a Kondopoga, Russia, bar fight in which two ethnic Russians were killed by men from Azerbaijan and Chechnya.
Authorities said mobs of ethnic Russians rampaged through the town Sept. 2, setting fire to the Azerbaijani-owned bar where the fight occurred and attacking homes and businesses of immigrants from Chechnya and other Caucuses, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
The mobs wrecked stalls in the town's open-air market, broke apartment windows with rocks, overturned kiosks and cars, vandalized two stores and set fire to a store that was being built.
The Times said dozens of Chechens, Azerbaijanis and Georgians fled the town Sept. 2 and about 49 are staying in a tourist camp outside Petrozavodsk.
Experts said the riots were part of the growing ethnic tensions between Russians and migrants from the Caucuses.
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