MOSCOW: In a racist attack, an Indian medical student in the city of Ryazan, south of Moscow, was attacked by a group of school boys.
Four school boys have been arrested and booked for beating an Indian student out of "racial hatred," News.ru website reported on Sunday quoting sources.
The prosecutor's office has launched criminal investigation under article 282 of the Russian criminal code for inciting ethnic and racial animosity.
With the beginning of April, the month of Hitler's birthday, racial crimes are expected to further go up in Russia.
On Saturday, a group of skinhead youth chanting 'Russia for ethnic Russians' slogan in Moscow attacked the Culture Minister and a prominent singer of Caucasian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria.
Earlier last month, a nine year-old girl of mixed Russian and African race was stabbed and wounded in Putin's hometown, St. Petersburg.
