black american stabbed in Volgograd

[jj]

MOSCOW -- The mother of an American exchange student who was stabbed in Russia says her son has been transferred to a hospital in Finland.

Eighteen-year-old Stanley Robinson, of Providence, Rhode Island, was stabbed by unknown assailants in the southern Russian city of Volgograd on Dec. 5. Robinson is black; officials say the attack may have been racially motivated.

Robinson was studying Russian on a program arranged by the American Field Service, or AFS.

The organization said Saturday it had arranged his transfer to Finland, and his mother, Tina Robinson, confirmed by phone Sunday that he was hospitalized in Helsinki.

The head doctor of the Russian hospital where Robinson had been treated said Friday that his condition was grave but stable.

( I have been to Volgograd several times when visiting Marina before our marriage. She says there have been blacks from several countries that attend Volgograd University as exchange students.  Don't know about other prior attacks but  could be the anti-american propaganda among certain groups sinking in?)

[kievstar]

Not sure if it is anti American.  I know this past summer in Kiev - actually month of June  - 2 black Americans were killed (2 separate incidents).  No white Americans killed.  More racist that Anti American.