June

On May 9, 2013, the Mass Media reported that counterintelligence BIA arrested one of the establishers of “Russian Obraz” Ilya Goryachev (born in Moscow on May 30, 1982) in Belgrad.

On May 10, 2013, 31-year old Mikhail Volkov (Ed) was arrested by the competent authorities of Ukraine. It was previously reported that Ilya Goryachev, leader of “Russian Obraz”, was arrested in Serbia.

On June 12, the day Russia commemorates its declaration of national sovereignty in 1990, a general opposition rally in Moscow took place in the form of a march leaving from Kaluga Square, heading down Bolshaya Yakimanka Street and ending at Bolotnaya Square. Nationalist activists were in attendance. Additionally, in the south-east Moscow district of Lublino, another nationalist march 'For Legitimate Authority and Genuine Sovereignty' was held on on Pererva Street. The event, organized by Andrei Savelyev's Great Russia Party, was attended by (according to various estimates) between 100 and 300 people.

The following is our monthly review of incidences of xenophobia and radical nationalism, along with any government countermeasures, for May 2013. The review is based on material gathered by Sova Center in the course of our daily monitoring.