On March 9, 2007 in Krasnoarmejsk, Saratov Region, disturbances caused by a local businessman's death took place. A citizen of Azerbaijan stabbed him in a fight.
Late at night, on March 8, Alexei Filinov, a local businessman, in state of intoxication, came to the "Na mostah" bar where an acquaintance of him, a girl who worked at the bar, was sitting at the table of Anar Mamedov, a business rival of him. Filinov started to insult Mamedov, asking the girl how she could stay in such a company. They started to quarrel and then Mamedov stabbed Filinov at leg and left the bar. Filinov died of loss of blood.
Mamedov was arrested the next day and accused of deliberate infliction of grievous bodily harm leading to the death of the victim. The investigators don't see any ethnic hate motive in the crime.
However, the victim's friends thought quite the opposite. On March 10, they gathered on the central square claiming to organize a lynch law. The police persuaded them to go away. On the same day, the town was covered by anti-Caucasian leaflets, presumably made by the DPNI (Movement against Illegal Immigration) activists who, as usual, tried to use this crime to start an interethnic clash, as they did in Kondopoga in September, 2006, for example. The same slogans were posted on the DPNI web page. According to Temraz Bechvaja, the Georgian community leader, the representatives of DPNI from Moscow, Penza an Tambov were seen in the town trying to gather townspeople to a protest manifestation.
On the same day, the representatives of the regional government, central police department and the prosecutor's office came to Krasnoarmejsk to meet with the local parliament members not to let an interethnic conflict happen in the town.
Approximately 500 people came to the funeral on March 11, and up to 2 thousand came to a manifestation afterwards. Nazi-skinheads from Saratov, Cossacks and DPNI members reportedly were among the protestors. 13 activists of Sergey Baburin's "People's Will" party were detained by the police and expelled from the town. Some of the manifestation participants were invited to the meeting with the head of administration, the district prosecutor and the police chief, and claimed that "Russian people don't feel safe in the town" and created an initiative group "to protect Russian language speaking people".
This conflict is similar to such conflicts as in Salsk (Rostov region), Haragun (Chita region) and Kondopoga (the Republic of Karelia). The right wing radical activists tried to use it as an opportunity to start a real interethnic clash and to make people of the other ethnicity leave their place of residence. This time they seem to have lost, in many respects due to the opportune and effective police and administration activity.