After the attack, immigrants from Central Asia in Russia experience a wave of violence and racism - voila! news. Hundreds of thousands of people from the Muslim republics work in Russia, in industries vital to its economy.
Any damage to the availability of migrant workers could cause problems for the Russian economy. Russia is suffering from a general manpower shortage due to the demands of its war in Ukraine, which has led it to call up 300,000 reservists in 2022 and caused hundreds of thousands more to flee the country.