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Moscow is an undercovered dateline. Clarissa Ward, ABC's correspondent in Russia, filed only four reports from there on World News during the whole of 2008. Ward's rare report Friday featured the Slavic Union, a 5,000-strong ultra-nationalist racist paramilitary. She hung out in a snowbound forest outside the city while they trained with guns and knives. She showed us online videostreams of skinhead street violence against central Asian minorities and visited a suburb whose mosque was being torched. Many in Moscow predict "migrant workers will become even more of a lightning rod for resentment from Russians who believe that their jobs are being taken by foreigners."
UPDATE: The biggest Russia-related story of 2008 was the fighting over South Ossetia. Ward covered that not from Moscow but from a Georgia dateline.
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