Over 1300 rioters arrested in Moscow
16.12.10 11:00
Moscow police have detained some 1300 people who gathered near a railway station and across from the foreign ministry`s skyscraper ahead of a pre-announced street fight. thirty people have been seriously injured in the riot.
Many of those detained carried non-lethal guns and knives, and were members of ethnic groups from Caucasus, Moscow militia said.
The militia evacuated people from the subway station Kyiv, where the operative services were searching for bomb, but the alarm turned out false finally.
Militia also arrested 12 people for beating up three officers near another subway station of the Russian capital. The special task unit officers even had to shoot in the air to scatter the crowd. Most of the detained rioters were from Daghestan.
The militia also arrested a leader of one of the radical ethnic organizations together with 40 supporters. They were armed with clubs and axes. They have been charged with intentional provocation.
Armenian organizations in Moscow have declared support to Russian Nationalists, who launched rallies in Rostov, Samara and Petersburg.
