Politics
Nov 2 2006 5:57PMMan blamed for race violence in Karelia arrested - office
ST. PETERSBURG. Nov 2 (Interfax) - One of the individuals suspected
of starting a restaurant fight that set off mass race riots in
Kondopoga, a city in the Russian republic of Karelia, two months ago,
has been arrested and charged with hooliganism, the Karelian
Prosecutor's Office said on Thursday.
Yury Pliyev, "sheltered by his acquaintances in St. Petersburg all
the time since an arrest warrant was issued for him, has been arrested
and brought to [the Karelian capital] Petrozavodsk," the Prosecutor's
Office told Interfax.
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