Hundreds of protesters clashed with the police on Wednesday in the provincial town of Baymak, near Russia's border with Kazakhstan, after a local court sentenced an advocate for the local Bashkir ethnic minority to four years in prison.
The trial of Mr. Alsynov has shown how long-running ethnic grievances in the Russian provinces can swiftly assume antiwar undertones.
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