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http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/10.19/15-russia
“Ethnic Violence in Russia Rises” by Corydon Ireland. Harvard News Office 19 October 2006.
Corydon Ireland reports on a visit by Nickolai Butkevich to the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. Butkevich is the advocacy director of the Union of Coucil for Jews in the Former Soviet Union. He spoke to professors and graduate students on the issue of racial and ethnic hate crimes in Russia. The article reports on Butkevich’s presentation and the reaction of the audience. Butkevich argued that poor ethnic Russians are frustrated with the rise of immigrants and are taking out their anger on minorities. Ireland also reports that the audience questioned the validity of Butkevich’s statistics.