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Brutal raid on woman's birthday party highlights rise of Russian vigilante group
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- Christopher Gilesand Julia Luft,BBC Eye BBCKatya says she now lives in fear after her criminal sentence Warning: Offensive language
- Katya was about to blow out the candles on her 30th birthday cake when masked men burst into the nightclub hired for her party, and began physically and verbally attacking her friends.
- I could hear violence from every corner," she told a BBC World Service investigation.
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Christopher Gilesand Julia Luft,BBC Eye BBCKatya says she now lives in fear after her criminal sentence Warning: Offensive language
Katya was about to blow out the candles on her 30th birthday cake when masked men burst into the nightclub hired for her party, and began physically and verbally attacking her friends.
"They called us faggots and lesbians. I could hear violence from every corner," she told a BBC World Service investigation. Her mother was told to get down on all fours, she says.
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