A nine-year-old African-Russian girl was hospitalized with stab wounds following an attack by a group of suspected teenagers in downtown St. Petersburg on Saturday, two days after the controversial acquittal of the defendants in the trial for the murder of a nine-year-old Tajik girl two years ago. "Public inaction and a general silence, indicating indifference to the rising extreme nationalism, is tantamount to its justification," said Aliou Tunkara, head of the St. Petersburg African Union.