Police in the Urals city of Chelyabinsk have arrested a group of nationalist youths accused of plotting attacks on migrants from the Caucasus, officials said on Wednesday.
Fourteen young men aged between 16 and 18 are charged with planning to attack a market where traders from the North Caucasus region work, the Interior Ministry said.
"The leader of the group was a Chelyabinsk university student," the statement said.
Recent ethnic violence involving football hooligans and nationalists has raised doubts over Russia's ability to safely host the 2018 World Cup.
A wave of nationalist disturbances swept across Russia after an ethnic Russian football fan was shot dead in a brawl with North Caucasus internal migrants in Moscow last month.
MOSCOW, January 26 (RIA Novosti)
