With chants of “Russia for the Russians” and “White Power”, hundreds rampaged through Moscow to protest the murder of a young ethnic Russian, blaming it on a migrant from the North Caucasus.  Moscow Police arrested as many as 400 people in the violence.

Police have released a security camera photo of the suspected killer, but have not identified him as from the Caucuses or anywhere else.

It started with several hundred residents more-or-less peacefully demanding justice over the killing.  Within minutes, as group of young men began chanting racist slogans and smashing windows in a shopping center and a produce warehouse where migrants are believed to be employed.

It’s the worst such incident in three years, and highlights growing tension between ethnic Russians, who increasingly resent Russian citizens who’ve migrated from the Caucuses region, as well as others from other former Soviet Republics who’ve come to Moscow looking for work opportunities.

There’s a disconnect at the Kremlin, which has lurched to the right and enacted policies that critics say scapegoat people, especially LGBT people.  At the same time, Vladimir Putin’s government alarmed over the growing intolerance in the Russian populace and more frequent attacks on non-Slavic peoples.