Police officer keeps watch on men of non-Slavic origin during police operation at Dorgomilovsky market...
A police officer keeps watch on men of non-Slavic origin during a police operation controlling documents of workers at Dorgomilovsky market in Moscow October 12, 2006. A Russian government crackdown on immigrants sent a chill through Moscow's food markets -- a focal point for the dark-skinned migrants from ex-Soviet states the Kremlin is targeting. Russian President Vladimir Putin last week ordered ministers to protect the "native population" from criminal groups "with an ethnic flavour" that control some markets. Russia has already deported planeloads of Georgians it said were in the country illegally. REUTERS/Dima Korotayev (RUSSIA)