MANSUR MIROVALEV
The Associated Press
MOSCOW - Even by the standards of Moscow's xenophobic thugs it was a horrific attack: A group of skinheads gunned down Tajik migrant Salokhiddin Azizov on a Moscow region street, cut off his head and emailed a picture of the gruesome trophy to rights groups.
This week, Azizov was buried in his mountain village , a funeral in which mourners' grief mixed with rage. "They ... cursed Moscow," Azizov's uncle, Rakhmatsho, told The Associated Press on Thursday by telephone.
Like millions of others from impoverished former Soviet republics, the 20-year-old Azizov, who was killed Dec. 5, fled poverty for a low-paying job in Moscow's once-booming economy. Now, experts say, the rapidly spreading economic crisis , Russia's worst in a decade , has triggered a spike in hate attacks against non-Slavic migrants with Asian or Middle-Eastern features.
More than 100 foreigners have been killed in apparent hate attacks this year, four times more than in 2004, according to the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights.
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