More than 460 people were detained in the Moscow Region on Sunday as police held an operation to prevent new race-hate riots, a police spokesman said.
"Most people were detained in Orekhovo-Zuyevo Serpukhov - 177, Serpukhov - 150 and Chekhov - 125," spokesman Yevgeny Gildeyev said, adding that most of them were teenagers.
Police are on alert in anticipation of a planned unsanctioned public protest against the death of football fan Yegor Sviridov, 28, in a brawl in Moscow with migrants from Russia's mainly Muslim North Caucasus region.
Over 800 people were detained by police in the Moscow Region on Saturday, the spokesman said. Earlier this week, police arrested over 1,300 people in Moscow and hundreds of weapons were seized.
The Russian capital saw its biggest public disturbances for almost a decade when a 5,000-strong crowd of nationalists and football hooligans clashed with police at central Manezh Square last Saturday, December 11. More than 30 people were hurt in the rioting.
MOSCOW, December 19 (RIA Novosti)
