Study: Africans major target of racism in Moscow
A new study suggests nearly 60% of black and African people living in the Russian capital have been victims of racially motivated attacks.
Africans working or studying in Moscow rarely feel safe with many of them avoiding public transportation for fear of racial assaults, according to a BBC report citing a study by the Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy (MPC).
A quarter of the survey’s 200 respondents said they had been physically attacked more than once, while some 80% said they experienced verbal abuse.
Although the number of assaults has decreased from the MPC’s last survey in 2002, the nature of the pre-meditated attacks on Africans remained extremely violent, the report found.
