:Bloody KGB; and :People in Gray; - Yet Another "Social Group' feels Threatened by Blogs
On August 11, 2008, a criminal case had its debut, against a blogger who was overly outspoken against militiamen and the officers of the intelligence agencies. In contrast to the famous Savva Terentyev affair, where there was no political implications existed, this time legal action was undertaken against Dmitriy Solovyev, an activist of the "Oborona' ("Defense') movement in the Kemerovskaya Oblast'.
July 2008. Monthly Summary
No less than 11 racially-motivated attacks were registered in the month of July 2008 in Russia, resulting in at least one dead and 15 injured. All these attacks occurred in the Moscow and St. Petersburg regions, which, as before, remain the main centers of violence.
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.
