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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The stabbing death of an African in St. Petersburg has led a Russian student group with ties to the president to call for action against racist violence.
The Nashi (Our People) movement is asking for a public condemnation of rising racial intolerance in St. Petersburg, President Vladimir Putin's native city, after five or six youths stabbed to death Cameroonian student Kanhem Leon Saturday evening.
A Kenyan was wounded in a separate attack about 300 meters away. A Namibian student with the victim managed to escape, the BBC reported Monday.
"We demand that the St. Petersburg authorities stop the outrages in the city," said Nashi press secretary Ivan Mostovich.
Nashi said they want to bring the topic of xenophobic attacks before the Public Chamber, a recently created advisory body.
Foreign students in St. Petersburg reportedly are preparing a protest against the attacks.
The Moscow Bureau of Human Rights said there were three times as many fatal racial attacks in Russia in the first six months of 2005 as in the whole of 2004.
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