DUSHANBE, January 30, 2012 Asia-Plus – Some Russian media sources reported on January 30 that a large terrorist attack aimed at labor migrants with a non-Slavic appearance has been warded off in the city of Vladivostok, the administrative center of Russia’s Primosrky Krai.
According to RIA Novosti, local investigators in Russia”s Far East Primorye Territory said on Monday that five suspects have been charged with plotting a bomb attack aimed at immigrant workers.
The five organized an extremist group which attacked several people with a non-Slavic appearance, from May to June 2011.
The criminals also planned a terrorist attack in Vladivostok at the local migration service office, where workers from former Soviet Republics visit to get migration cards.
The defendants bought TNT and detonators for the attack, which they kept at their homes.
The five have been charged with organizing an extremist group, attempting to commit terrorism, illicit trafficking of explosives and disorderly conduct.
In December 2009, six teenage skinheads in Primorye were charged with committing serious racial hate crimes, including killing of two men from Vietnam and Kyrgyzstan.
