Race-hate related attacks in the former Soviet Union keep going from bad to worse.

From The Guardian.

Armenian student killed in Moscow race attack

Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow
Monday April 24, 2006
The Guardian

An ethnic Armenian teenager was stabbed to death in a metro station in central Moscow on Saturday night - the latest attack in a growing wave of racist violence in Russia.

At least six immigrants have been killed so far this month, and many more have been wounded.

Media reports said that a man in black clothing with a shaven head had stabbed the victim several times at Pushkin Square station, not far from the Kremlin, before fleeing.

Vagan Abramyants, 17, a student, died on the spot.

A friend who was with him at the time was badly wounded in the attack.

And from Ynet

Ukrainian skinheads stab Jew

Thugs mark Hitler’s birthday by attacking, stabbing Safed yeshiva students marking Passover in Ukraine

An emissary of the Union of Jewish Communities in Russia was the target of an attack by skinheads Saturday evening in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, Ynet has learned.

The man, Haim Gorbov, who studies at a Safed yeshiva, returned to Ukraine as part of a Seder organized by the Union of Jewish Communities

in Russia and the former Soviet Union. After Gorbov’s condition improved he was released from hospital.

It appears a gang of skinheads in the city sought to mark Hitler’s birthday, April 20, by attacking a Jew. Dnepropetrovsk’s Chief Rabbi Shmuel Kamintzky said that at first the skinheads tried to attack a group of yeshiva students in the city center, between the synagogue and the yeshiva in which they studied. They managed to escape, however, and the thugs then set upon the 20-year-old Gorbov.

Gorbov, who has Ukrainian citizenship, studied at the Or Avner school and after graduating arrived in Israel in order to study at a yeshiva in Safed. Rabbi Kamintzky said that at first the thugs struck him with a bottle on his head, but when they realized that the hat he was wearing was protecting him against serious injury they stabbed him in the chest and fled.

The President of the Union of Jewish Communities in Russia and the Soviet Union, Lev Laviev, called on the Ukrainian government not to be satisfied with another investigation into an attack on Jews after they take place.
“The rise in anti-Semitic activity demands immediate and determined preventative action. Whoever doesn’t invest in fighting skinheads who are attacking minorities will have to deal with them when they increase the level of violence towards the whole of Ukrainian society,” said Laviev.

Two months ago security guards thwarted a stabbing attack on the central synagogue in Kiev, Ukraine. The incident took place when a 65 year-old man arrived at the synagogue and asked to meet the rabbis. While speaking to the guards, the man pulled out a knife and said that all Jews should be killed.

The guards overpowered the attacker and handed him over to the police.

Meanwhile, Dnepropetrovsk’s Chief of Police Alexander Beveilov, who is himself Jewish and who took part in the Passover Seder organized by the Jewish community in the city, promised Rabbi Kamintzky that police would hunt down the skinheads responsible for the attack.

Jewish Agency head Ze’ev Bielsky said that “we are at a situation 60 years after the Holocaust where Jews in Ukraine and Russia live under nonstop harassment.