State media reports ` ` race - based '' violence has erupted in Moscow and St. Petersburg . About 100 White Moscow supporters clashed with police last weekend . They were protesting alleged police negligence over the death of Yegor Sviridov , 28 . On December 11 , about 5,000 nationalists and `` football hooligans '' clashed with Moscow police as an unsanctioned nationalist-tinged mass memorial for a fellow supporter turned violent , according to state media . Sviridov was reportedly killed in a clash with police from Russia 's North Caucasus region .
State media reports ` ` race - based '' violence has erupted in Moscow and St. Petersburg . About 100 White Moscow supporters clashed with police last weekend . They were protesting alleged police negligence over the death of Yegor Sviridov , 28 . Sviridov was reportedly killed in a clash with police from Russia 's North Caucasus region .