'Russia for Russians': Race-hate football fans clash with riot police outside Kremlin

• Ugly scenes as 5,000 take to streets week after winning World Cup 2018
  
• Rally in protest of football fan shot dead last week
• Fears that nationalism rising in Russia
• Police reveal that man from Kyrgyzstan knifed to death
• Other migrants attacked in Moscow riots

Dmitry Medvedev has vowed to track down the nationalists and football fans who violently clashed with riot police outside the Kremlin walls on Saturday.
More than 30 people were injured in central Moscow as some 5,000 football fans, who were protesting over the killing of a fellow supporter, clashed with security forces.
The Spartak Moscow fans gathered near the Kremlin following the shooting dead of Yegor Sviridov, 28, last weekend.
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Wounded: Some 30 people were injured in the violent clashes outside the Kremlin in Moscow on Saturday

Violent: The rally began peacefully enough, but turned nasty and police made a number of arrests

Riot police were sent to Manezh Square to deal with the unauthorised demonstration, and a number of arrests were made.

Police chief Vladimir Kolokoltsev spoke to reporters and promised to complete an investigation into the shooting and urged the demonstrators to be patient, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported.
But what started as a peaceful rally in the heart of Moscow outside the Kremlin, descended into a riot.
Many people were wearing masks and were seen ripping out park benches, street signs, and throwing bottles and flares at police. The flares were quickly extinguished. Some protesters have been detained.
Police used baton charges to break up the protesters, who included Russian nationalists. There were chants of slogans such as 'Russia for Russians'.
In response to those who suggested that nationalism is on the rise in Russia President Medvedev moved to assuage such concerns.

Rally: There were an estimated 5,000 football fans and nationalists at the protests, following the shooting and death of a Spartak Moscow supporter

Nationalism: Mr Medvedev said that he would punish all those caught and denied there was a problem with racism

'Everything is under control in the country and in Moscow,' he wrote on Twitter late last night.
'We will deal with everyone who did filthy things. With everyone. Have no doubts about it.'

Vow: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said that he will come down hard on all the rioters in a bid to stamp out nationalism

The gathering was to protest the killing of Mr Sviridov, a member of the Spartak team's fan organisation, who was shot with rubber bullets in a fight at a bus stop last week.
Those suspected of killing him are from Russia's North Caucasus region.
Neo-Nazi and other ultra-nationalist groups grew in Russia after the 1991 Soviet collapse, often targeting dark-skinned people from the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Hate attacks peaked in 2008, when 110 people were killed and 487 wounded, according to an independent watchdog.
Authorities have recently cracked down on the most radical groups, but the number of hate crimes remains high.
Some observers warned that the number of racially motivated attacks may rise following the weekend rally.
Moscow police said today that a citizen of Kyrgyzstan was stabbed to death by unidentified assailants in southern Moscow, and several other migrants were also attacked elsewhere in the city over the weekend.

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