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A 53-year-old Cambridge man is set to appear in Boston Municipal Court in connection with two random attacks on Asian American women in Chinatown and Downtown Crossing last year.

Alexander Ivanenko was charged with assault and battery on a person over 60 causing injury, assault and battery, two counts of assault and battery to intimidate and two counts of civil rights violation with injury, according to Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden’s office.
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The first alleged attack occurred at about 1:14 p.m. when an elderly Asian American woman was walking on Harrison Avenue toward Marginal Road in Chinatown. The woman told police that the attacker punched her and left the scene.

The second alleged attack took place at about 3:24 p.m. in Downtown Crossing. The victim also told police that she was punched by a man who then fled.