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Russian politicians on Monday drew attention to corruption, which they believe is one of the causes of the recent Moscow unrest that left about 1,200 people detained.
"(The unrest was triggered by) social problems, including problems stemming from immigration policies. The government fails to address them, so social tensions among the population grows," Mikhail Fedotov, head of the Presidential Human Rights Council, told the Russia-24 TV channel.
"No matter what we undertake, we come up against the same problem everywhere - the problem of corruption. Our immigration policy is based on certain reasonable principles, but corruption deforms the enforcement practice of the policy," he added.
Earlier on Monday, Russian Human Rights Commissioner Vladimir Lukin suggested opening a parliamentary inquiry into the unrest.
"Its main task is to work out proposals on how to solve the complicated national problem and eliminate corruption which is associated with it," the Interfax news agency quoted him as saying.
Some 1,000 locals, later joined by football fans and politicized nationalists, took to the streets on Sunday, demanding arrests after the fatal stabbing on Wednesday of Yegor Shcherbakov, a 25-year-old local man, in front of his girlfriend.
The rioters attributed the murder to a migrant worker after police released a photograph of the suspect, reportedly of non- Slavic appearance, and stormed a vegetable warehouse where migrant workers are often employed, looted an immigrant-owned mall and left behind them burnt-out cars.
Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin has ordered a thorough investigation into the murder and vowed to hold those responsible to account.
The Chinese Embassy in Moscow told Xinhua that no Chinese have participated in the unrest or got injured.
