"12 августа 2008 года в одном из магазинов Москвы пьяный посетитель
устроил дебош с применением травматического оружия. Ультраправые
ресурсы заявляют, что дебоширом был один из лидеров Партии защиты
российской конституции (ПЗРК) «Русь» Юрий Горский.

Сюжет о задержании не названного, но легко узнаваемого на видеозаписи
активиста ультраправых, был показан в программе «Чрезвычайное
происшествие» по каналу НТВ.

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

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The DPNI first came on the scene with its alleged involvement in anti-Armenian pogroms in Krasnoarmeysk in 2003. Media reports indicated that the assailants knew the addresses of some Armenian families and attacked them inside their homes. Now the DPNI is drawing maps of minority-dominated neighborhoods in Volgograd, a project that they may expand to other cities. Will this lead to further pogroms?

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Жарким маем 2007-го у игорного клуба «Мидас» в рабочем Северо-Западном районе города произошла массовая драка с участием примерно полусотни молодых ребят, разделившихся по национальному признаку. В ход шли арматура, тротуарная плитка, доски, булыжники. Из толпы, по словам очевидцев, раздавались выкрики вроде «Россия для русских!» и «Аллах акбар!».

Подробности и последствия: http://www.opengaz.ru/issues/20-308/hate.html

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"Komsomolskaya Pravda" often runs nationalistic articles, but in this case, the writer covers the issue from the perspective of the victims. Part 1: http://msk.kp.ru/daily/24088.5/320878/
Part 2: http://www.kp.ru/daily/24089/321077/
Part 3: http://www.kp.ru/daily/24090/321596/

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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.

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“Lets stop the color racism”, this is the name of the action of the youth organization against immigrants “National Action RID”, which will take place on 25 April (Friday) at 15.00 near the State National Committee on Nationalities and Religions (Volodymyrska street, 9).

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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.

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Instead of properly investigating neo-Nazi attacks on anti-fascists, some Russian law enforcement agencies prefer to target anti-fascist activists. Perhaps it's because anti-fascists tend to have little respect for the political establishment and generally espouse left-wing ideas. In addition, at least some within the Kremlin apparently lean towards pseudo-fascist ideology, according to a recent article on one of the Kremlin's chief ideologues.

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While racist violence in Russia gets a lot of media attention, similar trends in Ukraine a growing neo-Nazi movement, a large degree of impunity for hate crimes, denial on the part of some officials that there is a problem) go largely unnoticed. UCSJ's local monitor has recorded dozens of attacks on ethnic minorities since the beginning of the year.

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