Russia may see a rise in ethnic hatred following...

"The fears of people with Chechen backgrounds are not groundless. They have bitter experience of being considered criminals and abused because of their ethnic group," Nurdi Nuhazhiyev said.

"We have received calls from people of different Russian regions and Moscow who are frightened from possible illegal actions against them," he said. "Some Chechen people... have already felt a shift in the attitude towards them."

Russian media reported on Monday that there had been assaults on "Muslim-looking" people, but Ramazan Abdulatipov, the head of the assembly of the Russian peoples, said on Tuesday that Caucasus diasporas in Moscow had not complained of acts of xenophobia.

Ekho Moskvy radio said two Muslim women were beaten on a subway train between the Avtozavodskaya and Paveletskaya stations in south Moscow.

The Russian tabloid Moskovsky Komsomolets reported that two men of "Caucasian appearance" were assaulted " at Kuntsevskaya station in the west of the

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