Hoax bomb call causes evacuation of Moscow railroad terminal (Update 1)

Hoax bomb call causes evacuation of Moscow railroad terminal (Update 1)

Moscow's Kievsky Rail Terminal was evacuated early on Thursday following a hoax bomb threat, police said.

Police received an anonymous phone call early on Thursday reporting that a bomb had been planted in the terminal. Experts and sniffer dogs searched the building, but found nothing.

"The anonymous [bomb] reports have not been confirmed. The train station is now operating as normal," a police spokesman said.

Police earlier told RIA Novosti that some 15 hoax bomb reports had been registered in the Russian capital on Tuesday.

At least 800 people were arrested near the Kievsky terminal on Wednesday evening as police held a massive operation to prevent new race-hate riots. Many of those detained were carrying knives and rubber bullet guns.

Some 5,000 nationalists and football hooligans clashed with police near Red Square on Saturday. Rioters also attacked dark-skinned internal migrants from the country's North Caucasus region.

President Dmitry Medvedev has called the disorder, which was triggered by the death of a football fan in a brawl with migrants, a threat to the stability of the Russian state.

MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti)

Mass riots in Russia spurred by anti-reformists

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      RBC, 16.12.2010, Moscow 10:52:19.Mass riots in Moscow have been caused by the actions of both domestic and foreign forces' interest in Russia's disintegration and the weakening of the country's position on the international arena, deputy chairman of the State Duma security committee and former First Deputy Attorney General Vladimir Kolesnikov told RBC today.

      "This is a result of steps taken by forces that are neither interested in the continuation of reforms announced by the president, including in the judicial and law enforcement systems, nor in Russia's stronger role in the CIS," Kolesnikov explained. According to him, all of these 'fundamental changes' have disturbed many people, and "those people are trying to sabotage Russia by presenting it as underhanded," the legislator stated.

      He concluded by asserting that Russia must persist in its reforms.

Over 1,300 detained in Moscow race-hate riots

MOSCOW, December 16 (RIA Novosti) - Over 1,300 people were arrested in Moscow on Wednesday as police mounted a mass operation to prevent further race-hate riots, a police source said on Thursday.

Police were on high alert on Wednesday following rumors that nationalist groups and migrants from the southern Russian North Caucasus region were planning to clash near the Kievskaya railway terminal.

Police seized 16 traumatic guns, 208 knives and 260 other weapons, including hammers, metal bars and stun guns, the source said.

Police said about 30 people were injured as officers sealed off areas of the city around the rail terminal.

There were also arrests in St Petersburg as police prevented clashes between nationalists and migrants.

The new race-hate protests came after the Russian capital saw its biggest public disturbances for almost a decade on Saturday as a 5,000-strong crowd of nationalists and football hooligans clashed with police near Red Square. Rioters also attacked people from the country's North Caucasus region.

President Dmitry Medvedev called the disorder, which was triggered by the death of a football fan in a brawl with North Caucasus migrants, a threat to the stability of the Russian state.

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16.12.2010, 02.36

MOSCOW, December 16 (Itar-Tass) - Police have detained 12 natives of the Caucasus near Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station in Moscow’s southwest for attacking three policemen on December 15.

“A group of natives of the North Caucasus was apparently heading for the city centre when three duty police officers blocked their way. The men refused to obey the order to disperse. Instead, they attacked and beat up two policemen,” Moscow law enforcers told Itar-Tass.

Police patrols detained the 12 attackers, most of who are the natives of Dagestan, and took them to the nearest police station. The detainees may face charges in conformity with Russian laws. The two injured policemen are receiving medical aid.

12/16 12:08   PROSECUTORS LAUNCH 22 CRIMINAL CASES OVER MASS RIOTS IN MOSCOW - PROSECUTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE

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16.12.2010, 11.48

MOSCOW, December 16 (Itar-Tass) -- Two criminal cases were instituted over the crimes, which young hooligans committed on December 15 in Moscow, spokesman for the Investigation Committee Vladimir Markin told Itar-Tass on Thursday.

The police stopped about 12 people for an identity check-up not far from the Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station at about 7 p.m. Moscow time on Wednesday, he noted. The young offenders “did not obey to the legitimate demands of the police and started beating them up with hooliganism motives.” “The policemen received various bodily injuries. Additional police forces that rushed to the incident site detained all offenders. They turned out to be residents of the North Caucasus republics,” Markin added.

A criminal case was instituted over the use of violence against a law enforcer.

Meanwhile, three Dagestani natives attacked a young man without any reasons and beat him up at about 6 p.m. Moscow time on the same day at the Park Kultury metro station. “An attacker has made a shot from a traumatic pistol in the head of the beaten young man. Thanks to urgent qualified actions of the police all the attackers were detained at the crime scene,” the spokesman said.