Severe Attack on Tajikistani Guest Workers in Moscow
On July 28, 2008, not far from the Ridzhkaya Railway Station, unidentified people attacked several guest workers from Tajikistan and threw incendiary bottles into their dwellings. Some of the workers were taken to the hospital for resuscitation with severe injuries.
Music Club to be Closed Down for its Head's Extremism
On July 24, 2008, the Zabaykal Krai district attorney's office submitted to the Chitinskaya Oblast' law court the request to liquidate the regional public organization Chitinskaya Youth Club for Guitar Playing "Velikyi Istok' ("Great Beginnings') and to delete its name from the federal juridical entities' register.
Are there radical rightists in the Petersburg Police?
On July 24, 2008, following the communication about the arrest of Aleksey Bychin accused of stabbing a policeman, it became known that radical rightists obtained access to information about detained antifascists. According to the data from radical right sites, the information came from the police itself.
The Death of Ilya Borodaenko Commemorated in Several Russian Cities
Exactly one year ago yesterday, activist Ilya Borodaenko was murdered during an attack by a group of Nazi skinheads on a ecology protest action to which he was taking part. In his memory, groups of people gathered in several Russian towns, among which Irkutsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Samara.
New SOVA Center Book Now Available
The English language book entitled :Xenophobia, Freedom of Conscience and Anti-Extremism in Russia in 2007;, edited by the SOVA Center, is as of now available.
Internet Forum Comments bring one Man to Court
In mid-July 2008, in the town of Aleksandrov (Vladimir region), a 23-year old man was charged for posting nationalistic comments on a forum, on the basis of Paragraph 1 of Article 282 of the Russian Criminal Code (condemning the incitement of hatred or hostility).
St. Petersburg Murder of Uzbek Worker Goes to Court
Four young boys are being brought to court, after the investigation of the November 2007 murder of an Uzbek worker in Repino was finished in mid-July 2008. All suspects are charged with incitement of inter-ethnic hatred and hostility (Article 282 of the Russian Criminal Code), and two of them, both minors, face murder charges (Paragraph 2 of Article 105).
