BBC NEWS | Moscow police probe race attacks

A Russian TV producer says he was beaten up in a racist attack on the Moscow metro - the second suspected race crime within a few days. Journalist Elkhan Mirzoyev, from Azerbaijan, said he was attacked on a train by a group of young men and a woman, who hit him with beer bottles. Police are treating the crime as based on "ethnic, racial, religious hatred", according to news agency Itar-Tass.