Nine people convicted of the ethnically motivated murder of Central Asian migrants were jailed for up to 23 years by a Moscow court yesterday.
The trial of the alleged members of a neo-Nazi group dubbed the "White Wolves" underscored the persistence of racist crimes by extreme nationalists and white supremacists in Russia.
A Moscow City Court jury convicted the nine this month of involvement in five murders and one attempted murder.
The only minor among those convicted was sentenced to 6 years in a juvenile prison.
The others were jailed for terms ranging from seven to 23 years.
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