MOSCOW, April 8 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow prosecutors have ordered the arrest of four suspects in an attack on an NTV television producer, the Prosecutor's Office said Saturday.
"Four suspects have been detained," prosecutors said.
NTV producer Elkhan Mirzoyev, of Azerbaijani origin, was beaten early on Monday in a subway car in central Moscow in an apparently racially motivated incident. Doctors said later in the day that Mirzoyev was at home, and in a satisfactory state of health.
Mirzoyev said a group of young people had entered the metro car at Park Kultury station, and one of them, a "skinhead", approached him and told him he "must leave Moscow." Another poured beer onto the producer's head, after which the confrontation turned violent.
The incident follows a series of recent attacks on non-white foreign nationals in Russia.
Police reported on Friday that a student from Senegal had been shot dead in St.Petersburg on his way home from a nightclub.
A week ago, Zaur Tutov, the culture minister of the southern republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, was attacked by a group of 12-15 people at night in Moscow and hospitalized with a broken jawbone and concussion. The minister's lawyer said the attack was racially motivated.
