MOSCOW - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev vowed, hard succeed on those involved in bloody racist abuse in the capital over the weekend, warning that could to tear ethnic violence of the country.
Police in Moscow remained on alert Monday, Manezh square, including their underground shopping mall and a Monday closed near nearby u station at rush hour. Police said the measures in response to a possible return of violence reported some of the worst in the capital in years came Saturday, local news agencies. Monday was quiet in the midst of the heavy police presence.
Manezh, a large square popular which is located next to the Kremlin and red square, took chanting and attacked dark-skinned people with tourists, on Saturday afternoon of more than 5,000 fans and demonstrators, the xenophobic slogans.
Police fought to negotiate the amount included and referred to in the city police chief. Dozens were injured to disseminate police and violence scattered u-Bahn as demonstrators including more.
"The recent events in Moscow - pogroms, attacks on people - as a crime and those who punished, committed must be qualified" Mr Medvedev said top law enforcement agencies and officers in the Kremlin on Monday. "Ethnic violence threatened the stability of the State," he said.
A strong following in Russia have neo-Nazis and other ultra nationalist groups since the Soviet Union in 1991 to reduce targeting darker-skinned immigrants from Russia's Caucasus region as immigrants from Central Asia and other former Soviet republics for violent attacks.
The violence has worsened in recent months, according to community groups and analysts, although it is not clear why.
Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, official spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church, "The situation is very alarming," said Sunday. "Only fast and serious measures can pull back the inter-ethnic bloodshed Russia from the lethal threshold."
Alexander Verkhovsky, Director of the Sova saying in ultra-nationalist group studies the authorities some progress made with a RAID in recent years. But Saturday's violence violent underground roots deeply proposed, he said.
"There is no single organization," he said pointing out that it is estimated that the number of violent activists in quite Russia as high as 20,000. Hate crimes reached 2008 with 115 in killed and wounded nearly 500, according to Sova data. "There is no good way for the authorities," said Mr Verkhovsky.
Separately Monday, prosecutors said you the investigation in the 2009 murders of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova journalist had concluded on a Moscow Street downtown. Prosecutors have accused of murder a neo-Nazi activist.
Minority groups criticize police for not crack down hard to sustain enough on the ultra nationalists - their demonstrations if anti-Government actions of opposition groups in contrast are broken.
"We hear but the authorities don't harsh statements by leaders, nothing at all," said Mukhammad Amin Madzhumder, President of the Federation of migrants of Russian, an advocacy group.
Saturday police arrested local news agencies released around 60 people in the violence, but they soon reported. After Mr. defenders comments Monday, authorities announced criminal investigation, the acts of violence, but no new arrests.
Saturday's violence seemed to grow from the murder of a young fan of Moscow's professional football team earlier this month during what police say was a battle between football fans and a group of young people from the Caucasus. The series of football fans often overlap with those of the ultra nationalists.
Earlier last week, a highway in Moscow blocked demonstrators to protest, which was from the Caucasus release of a suspect in the murder. Police took about an hour to remove the blockade and none of the protesters arrested.
A Memorial March for the slain fan, sponsored by several teams, fan clubs went without incident early Saturday morning. Fan clubs that are with the teams attached to its members for root, denied any connection between your group and ultra-nationalist violence.
But later Saturday, protesters "Russia for Russians" moved to Manezh square where pumped flares waved thousands of mostly young men, their faces covered by masks or scarves, your arms and shouting slogans as, and obscene demand to leave the immigrants.
Police unprepared and fought, included the amount, until reinforcements arrived it was released for the great turnout.
"Underestimated the situation on Manezh," said Alexander Sokolov, a member of a Government advisory panel, a hearing on Monday held.
Officials defended said police but response from the events would be learnt. Complained to Moscow's City Council a police official, TV coverage of violence in Europe inspired the demonstrators in recent weeks had reported the radio station Echo Moskvy.
In other cities over the weekend, the violence in football fans demonstrations limited heavy police presence.
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