The Moscow police took unprecedented security measures to prevent inter-ethnic clashes and to curb the escalation of the violence that began on 11 December. Thousands of police personnel patrolled the streets. Despite numerous fights between Russian nationalist groups and groups of Caucasians (such as Chechens, Ingush, etc.), no killings were reported. Some 30 people were injured, and the police detained some 1,200 people (most of them were later released). Seven stun-guns, two hundred knives, and numerous baseball bats, iron rods, and pepper spray canisters, etc., were confiscated.
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1558341
http://echo.msk.ru/blog/varlamov_i/734434-echo/ (photo)
http://lenta.ru/photo/2010/12/16/moscow/ (photo)
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