8 октября 2008 года из Москвы в Санкт-Петербург был доставлен находившийся в розыске лидер музыкальной
группы "Позиция" житель Пензы Борис Андреев, подозреваемый в убийстве
индийского студента, сообщает информационно-аналитический центр «Сова» .

Technorati Tags: skinheads attack on foreign students

В Оренбурге предъявлено обвинение пятерым скинхедам,
избивавшим лиц другой национальности и размещавшим видеозаписи избиения в Интернете,
сообщает «Газета. ру».

Technorati Tags: skinheads Orenburg

В Центральном районном суде Хабаровска начался процесс по
делу лидеров Хабаровского отделения Союза Русского Народа Павла Оноприенко и
Виктора Чулкина, обвиняемых в распространении черносотенной газеты, сообщает центр «Сова».

Technorati Tags: Union of the Russian People

Промышленный районный суд Ставрополя запретил распространение на территории
России ряда брошюр, подписанных монахом Афанасием

Technorati Tags: monk Afanasi extremist literature

Суд Архангельской области признал 18-летнего Юрия Гамова,
угрожавшего убийством представителю другой национальности, виновным и приговорил
его к двум годам лишения свободы условно с испытательным сроком два года, сообщает NEWSru.com.

Как установил Каргопольский районный
суд, преступление было совершено по мотивам национальной ненависти, передает
ИТАР-ТАСС со ссылкой на пресс-службу региональной прокуратуры.

Technorati Tags: Yuri Gamov racial hate crimes

 Некоторые подробности расследования дела антифашиста Алексея Бычина в статье Т.Лихановой на Закс.ru "Бойцы неонацистского назначения" 

Technorati Tags: дело Бычина милиция

Evidence has emerged over the last two weeks of a coordinated, Soviet style campaign against Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. Charges of extremism have been filed against two congregations, FSB and other officials have interfered with over 30 Jehovah's Witnesses congresses this summer, and a series of articles demonizing Jehovah's Witnesses have appeared in provinical newspapers throughout the country, in some cases on the same day. Many of these articles focus on an alleged kidnapping by Jehovah's Witnesses of a young man supposedly seeking sanctuary inside a Russian Orthodox church in Elista.

Technorati Tags: Russia Jehovah's Witnesses Orthodox Church

The AI report (in PDF format) finds widespread racist and antisemitic violence in Ukraine, and criticizes the reaction to it by law enforcement agencies.

Technorati Tags: Ukraine anti-Semitism racism racist violence neo-Nazis Jews

On the one hand, Moscow's mayor Yuri Luzhkov publicly condemns xenophobia and last week called for harsher laws against hate speech and hate crimes, saying on April 15 that: "The government must ensure the tranquility of all people regardless of the color of their skin... Xenophobia is a disease that may eventually endanger this country. The main reason for such crimes is the absence of a real punishment." At the same time, his subordinates running the city's law enforcement agencies impudently contradict him and President Putin by denying that racist violence is a problem.

Technorati Tags: Moscow xenophobia anti-Semitism racism Luzhkov

A few days after the city's chief prosecutor harshly criticized human rights activists for supposedly exaggerating the problem of hate crimes in Russia, Moscow's chief of police Vladimir Pronin denied that there is an organized neo-Nazi movement in Moscow, according to an April 10, 2008 report by the Russian Jewish web site Jewish.ru. Speaking on TVTs television on Tuesday, Mr. Pronin said that, "There is no organized skinhead movement in Moscow, there are just individual excesses." He added that in the first two months of the year, Moscow police registered around 60 crimes motivated by extremism, and that prosecutors opened three hate crimes investigations. As usual, he tempered these numbers by emphasizing that foreign citizens are more likely to commit crimes than Russian citizens, according to police statistics.

Technorati Tags: racism Moscow xenophobia