by Vitali Vitaliev On 7 May, Assaf Nagiev, an Azerbaijani salesman at Luzhniki flea market, was stabbed to death. The murderer escaped. A crowd of several thousand Azeris carried Nagiev’s body to the center of Moscow, where they clashed with anti-riot troops. It escalated into the worst incident of ethnic violence in the Russian capital in three years. Three days […]
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