MOSCOW Aug 31, (BBC) – Nearly 60% of black and African people living in Russia’s capital Moscow have been physically assaulted in racially motivated attacks, says a new study. Africans working or studying in the city live in constant fear of attack, according to the report by the Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy. Full story here at [...]

ST. PETERSBURG Aug 31, (AFP) – A Russian court has jailed a skinhead for 11 years for stabbing a student to death he thought was anti-fascist on the anniversary of Hitler’s death, a court said on August 31. Vladimir Sosnikhin, 22, was jailed for killing the student on April 20, 2008, mistaking him and his [...]

MOSCOW Aug 14, (AFP) – Police in Russia have arrested a suspected serial killer accused of committing 15 murders in Moscow, news agencies reported on August 14. The 21-year-old man is being quizzed in connection with the killings of non-Slavic people over two years. “Police suspect him of having committed 15 murders in Moscow in [...]

Joaquim “Vasya” Crima, a 37-year-old native of Guinea-Bissau, now of Russian citizenship, is running for District Chief in the small village of Srednyaya Akhtuba in central Russia’s Volgograd region. Original story in Russian here.

ABUJA June 25 (BBC) – Russia’s energy giant Gazprom has signed a $2.5bn (£1.53bn) deal with Nigeria’s state operated NNPC, to invest in a new joint venture. The new firm, to be called Nigaz, is set to build refineries, pipelines and gas power stations in Nigeria. Analysts say the move could further strengthen Russia’s role [...]