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Two Uzbek nationals murdered in northern Russia

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ST. PETERSBURG, March 12 (RIA Novosti) -A Uzbek national was stabbed to death in St. Petersburg and another was found dead in the Leningrad Region, a spokesman for Russia's law enforcement agencies said on Wednesday.

The man who died in Russia's second largest city was stabbed several times in the chest late on Tuesday. He managed to get to his apartment where he died.

He also said another Uzbek national was found beaten to death in the town of Primorsk, near St. Petersburg.

This year has seen a rise in the number of attacks on Central Asians and foreigners in Russia.

In February the Kyrgyz embassy in Moscow sent an official note to Russia's Foreign Ministry, Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor General's Office protesting the murders of at least four Kyrgyz nationals in Russia this year.

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