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Little girl stabbed in Petersburg out of danger

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ST. PETERSBURG, March 26 (RIA Novosti) - A little girl of mixed Russian and African origin, recently attacked and stabbed in St. Petersburg, is out of danger, a city prosecutor said Sunday.

On Saturday evening, unidentified persons attacked the girl near her apartment building. The girl received several injuries but was able to get to her apartment, after which she was hospitalized.

"The girl's condition is satisfactory and there is no threat to her life," the prosecutor said.

Russian and foreign human-rights groups have raised concerns over what they say is the alarming spread of racist and xenophobic attitudes in Russia in recent years.

The latest in a string of attacks on foreigners with non-Slavic features occurred in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don March 9 when a Syrian student was beaten up.

The central Russian city of Voronezh alone has seen as many as seven racially motivated killings over the past six years, including the murder of a Peruvian student in October 2005.

On January 11, 2006, Moscow saw a shocking attack on a synagogue when a 20-year-old man stabbed nine people with a hunting knife.

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