A public meeting of law enforcement officials in Tula, Russia yielded information on a previously unreported hate crime, according to a June 26, 2008 report on the web site Jewish.ru. At the June 25 meeting, the region's chief prosecutor Oleg Chernysh said: "We have witnessed cruel crimes by youth radical groups in various regions of Russia, unfortunately there was such an incident in the Tula region: four youths stabbed a citizen of Uzbekistan." Mr. Chernysh did not say when this crime took place or what charges the culprits face. In the standard and unfortunate practice of Russian law enforcement agencies, the officials present at the meeting also reported on violations of immigration laws by around 200 of the 40,000 estimated foreign citizens living in the region, as if to "balance" the embarrassing information they revealed about racist attacks on migrants.

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