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One person killed, dozens injured over ten days
The period between end-July and early August 2006 in Russia was marked by an outburst of nationalist violence, leaving at least two dozen casualties, including one death.
A neo-nazi leader detention in Moscow
July 24, 2006, in Moscow, Dmitry Demushkin, the leader of an extreme rightwing neonazi group called "Slavyansky Sojuz" (or SS) was detained for several hours.
Four young men found not guilty of the racist murder in St. Petersburg
July 25, 2006, in St. Petersburg, the jury found four young men not guilty of the September stabbing death of a Congolese student Roland Epassak, 29.
President Vladimir Putin approved the amendments to the law "On Countering Extremist Activity."
On July 28, 2006, president Vladimir Putin approved the amendments to the law "On Countering Extremist Activity." The amendments have raised great concern within civil society in Russia, but the criticism seems not to have been taken into consideration as the bill moved quickly through the State Duma (lower chamber of parliament): the first, second, and third readings were held on June 28, July 7, and July 8, respectively. On July 14, the Council of Federation (upper chamber of parliament) approved the bill, even though some of the senators surprisingly criticized it for representing a threat to civil rights.
Cyprian Blamires. Review of :Fascism Past and Present, West and East;
Review of the new book: Roger Griffin, Werner Loh and Andreas Umland, Eds. Fascism Past and Present, West and East: An international debate on concepts and cases in the comparative study of the extreme right. With an afterword by Walter Laqueur. Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2006.
Human Rights First reports on hate crimes in Russia
On 26 June, Human Rights First, an American NGO, released two new reports on hate crimes in the Russian Federation. Executive summary in Russian of the first report is available.
Holiday Weekend Attacks
Russian rightwing radicals celebrated June 12, 2006, an official holiday known as Russia Day, with a number of attacks and meetings in different Russian regions.
Radical right-wing Russian websites are closed down
We have already observed, that Russian radical right-wing internet resources exhibit the tendency to be closed down, which has become evident in March 2006. We note the same tendency in May 2006: six websites run by three Russian neonazi groups have been closed by providers for violations of the custom agreement forbidding straight appeals for terrorism, political murders and racist violence.
In St. Petersburg, a group suspected of a series of racist killings and assaults were arrested
On May 18-21, 2006, in St. Petersburg, law enforcement authorities rounded up and arrested a group of skinheads suspected of a series of racist killings committed in the city in 2004 and 2005.
Conference in Moscow: :Future of Russia under the Threat of Fascism ;
On May 14 2006, more then 150 representatives of different NGOs, youth associations, democratic political parties, independent antifascist groups, ethnic associations, experts, journalists and cultural figures took part in an antifascist conference in Moscow.

The conference has adopted the Program of Action (available in Russian), which will become a basis for forming the Antifascist Front.