The Moscow News reports that yet another dark-skinned foreigner has fallen prey to cowardly, bloody race violence in St. Petersburg, supposedly Russia's most enlightened and open-minded of cities.

The paper reveals:

An Indian student was stabbed with a knife in central St. Petersburg district late on Wednesday. The fifth-year student, Anjani Kumar, 23, of the local Mechnikov Medical Academy was returning to his hostel on Wednesday night, when he was attacked by a group of “unidentified” youths, who stabbed him in the neck. According to local agencies, the Indian student has been hospitalized and is reportedly out of danger.The incident comes in the wake of a string of racial attacks by Russian skinheads in different parts of the country to mark Nazi dictator Adolph Hitler’s birthday on Thursday. Although there is a visible police presence in public places frequented by non-whites, many Asian and African expatriates and students have decided to stay at home on Thursday. Police are looking into the incident, which took place only days after a Senegalese university student was murdered in St. Petersburg in what investigators are considering a possible hate crime. The victim was gunned down as he and a group of fellow African students were leaving a night club earlier this month. Lamzar Samba was a fifth-year student at St. Petersburg’s Communications Institute, who belonged to African Unity, a human rights organization that represents the interests of the city’s African community. AP quoted the city’s deputy prosecutor, Andrei Lavrenko, as telling NTV television that a hunting gun decorated with a swastika was found at the crime scene.Racist violence is a mounting problem in Russia. Members of ultranationalist and other groups regularly harass or attack Africans, Asians, and non-Slavic residents from the Caucasus or the formerly Soviet republics of Central Asia. A group calling itself the Party of Freedom welcomed the killing in St. Petersburg, saying on its website, “the cleanup of the city continues.”

Russia's neo-Soviet dictatorship offers none of the law-and-order advantages of centralization but all of the economic and political disadvantages. In fact, it is hard to be sure that the Kremlin does not actually condone this killing. Remember how active Russia was in seeking to protect its "Slavic little brother" when NATO attacked Yugoslavia? Where is all that Russian energy now? Nowhere to be seen.

Is it possible that Russia actually wants to send the message that all foreigners should get out? Oh my, it is indeed. MosNews reports that this year, which is not even half over, has already seen 14 racial killings and 92 injuries in the course of 100 attacks, basically one every other day. La Russophobe has already documented three such incidents and the blog has not even existed for one month yet.