Two Russian youths were sentenced to prison terms for a racially motivated attack on a Somali television reporter in the eastern Russian city of Yekaterinburg, RIA Novosti news agency reported Thursday.

21-year-old and 23-year-old men were sentenced to three years in jail for brutally beating Somali national Martin Adams in September 2003. Both men belonging to the skinhead movement were arrested two years later in October 2005.

Non-white foreign nationals from Africa, Asia and Latin America are being regularly attacked by aggressive nationalists in Russia as well as migrants from former Soviet republics of the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Earlier this month, four men were arrested on suspicion of killing a 15-year-old Armenian boy on a commuter train near Moscow, and a three-and-a-half-year jail term was handed down for the leader of an extremist gang found guilty of several crimes against non-whites, including the murder of a Senegalese student in April, RIA-Novosti reported.

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