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Soccer Fans Riot In Moscow
December 13, 2010 12:21 GMT
At least 30 people were reported to have been injured in clashes with police in Moscow that erupted during a rally that drew some 5,000 soccer fans and nationalists protesting the death of a fan in a street brawl last week.
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Soccer fans came to attend a memorial for Spartak Moscow fan Yegor Sviridov at the site of his stabbing on December 11.
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Sviridov, a member of a radical Spartak fan group, was reportedly shot during an interracial brawl.
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The rally in Moscow's Manezh Square drew some 5,000 demonstrators.
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Some say the violence has exposed close links between extremists and soccer-club supporters.
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It was an embarrassment for Russia less than two weeks after it won the right to host the FIFA World Cup in 2018.
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Russia's president said rioters who committed violence against other people in Moscow must be punished.
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Riot police clash with fans.
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At least 30 people were reported to have been injured.
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Men who appeared to come from the Caucasus were beaten up by protesting fans.
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Russia's president said on his Twitter page that "we will deal with everyone who defiled things. Everyone. You can be certain of that."
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