Comment: Members of BRIC are fighting over peanuts.. :)Police cited health and fire safety violations in shutting down the 740-acre (nearly 300-hectare) bazaar in northeast Moscow. Over 100,000 traders were locked out of their stalls and thrown out of work overnight.
Since then, officials have accused the market of being a major hub for smuggling activities and have seized the merchants' wares, demanding documents to prove that they were legally imported.
Many of the traders at the Cherkizovsky market are migrants. Some are from the Caucasus region to Russia's south and others come from the former Soviet republics. But a significant number are Chinese, and it was on their behalf that Beijing sent a special delegation headed by Deputy Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng to Moscow this week to protest Russia's actions.
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