1.   Authorities have cracked down on far-right groups, but police have been accused of standing by or failing to respond quickly to skinhead attacks on foreigners.

2.   Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov met with ambassadors Saturday who have raised concerns about the growing problem of skinhead attacks on foreigners in the country.

3.   Skinhead attacks tend to target dark-skinned people from the Caucasus region and Central Asia.

4.   Skinhead attacks mainly on Gypsies, also known as Roma, are most frequent in north Moravia.

5.   Skinhead attacks on Asians and Africans persist in New Zealand.

6.   Skinhead attacks tend to target dark-skinned people from the Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Africa.

7.   While in the past racist violence was limited mostly to skinhead attacks on Roma or other nationals with dark skin, the Czech Roma now strike back.

8.   Diplomats posted in Moscow will once again appeal to the Russian authorities to curb skinhead attacks, the Russian media reported Saturday.