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Right-wing nationalists and residents in a northern Russian town clashed with riot police and destroyed a restaurant.
The incident has occurred just days after a fight between ethnic Russians and ethnic Chechens left at least two people dead.
Thousands of people, meanwhile, gathered in the center of Kondopoga, about 1,000 km, north of Moscow, demanding that police expel Chechens and other people from Russia's Northern Caucasus or investigate them for criminal ties.
Kondopoga police denied any serious disturbances had taken place in the past week.
But Alexander Vekhorovsky, head of the Moscow-based human rights center Sova, said that right-wing nationalists were traveling to the remote town amid calls from anti-immigrants groups to attack non-Russian immigrants from the Caucasus.
Vekhorovsky said a group of Russian and Chechen men clashed earlier this week at a Chechen-owned restaurant called Chaika, resulting in the deaths of at least two Russian men.
Yevgeny Zhuralyov, a duty officer with the Karelian regional Interior Ministry, said two people were killed in the fight on Wednesday and several were wounded. (AP)
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