Moscow authorities will create a map showing...

Russia has seen a wave of racially motivated crimes since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Routine attacks by skinheads and gangs of youths on foreigners and people with non-Slavic features are a regular occurrence in Moscow, which hosts many foreign university students, foreign workers and tourists.

In an interview published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Moscow committee for interregional relations and national policy chairman Mikhail Solomentsev said special groups with good knowledge of race-hate hot spots and the necessary measures to take to prevent flare-ups have already been created. These groups include representatives from the police and security services, and culture, education, social and sport departments.

"So far only a rough version of the map is available. When the groups begin to work in full we will be able to update it on-line," Solomentsev said.

He said there are several such sites in the city which need to be taken under control and eliminated.

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