A few days after law enforcement officials categorically denied a hate crimes motive in two attacks on minorities over the weekend, police announced the arrest of five suspects in an earlier murder and charged the suspects with a hate crime, according to an April 22, 2008 report by the Gazeta.ru news web site. The suspects allegedly murdered an Azeri man in November 2007 at the Yuzhnaya Noch restaurant. The suspects also face manslaughter charges. The more recent attacks came during Hitler's birthday (April 20), traditionally a time of increased neo-Nazi violence in Russia.

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