The Russia Journal Daily:: Xenophobia, racially motivated crimes raise concerns

Thomas, a Liberian-born engineer, was fearful and did not want to give his last name. He came to Russia to study in the early 1990s. He had planned to return home upon graduation, but was stranded here when civil wars destroyed those dreams and much of his homeland. But for Thomas, Moscow has turned out to be no better than his war-torn, lawless capital, Monrovia, as skinheads here make life unbearable.