August 2008. Monthly summary
In August 2008, not less than 25 people, including 5 dead, became victims of racially and neo-Nazi motivated violence (in August 2007, 6 people died and not less than 66 were injured). Apart from Moscow and St. Petersburg, such attacks were registered in Perm, Tula, Uljyanovsk and Chelyabinsk.
Hate Crime Misses Target
On the night of July 31, in the Begunitsy village in the Leningrad region, seven Chinese workers were beaten and robbed.
: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.
