Anti-extremism in action: a newspaper in Komi Republic is going to be closed for interviewee's words
A Syktyvkar (Komi Republic) newspaper Zyryanskaja zhizn has attracted attention of Rosohrankultura, a Ministry of Culture and Mass media department, which controls the legislation observance. It's regional department has brought an action against the newspaper for a publication which, in it's opinion, incites ethnic and religious enmity and calls to violence.
But in this case is the newspaper would be punished just for quoting local Ombudsman.
Three attacks in two days, one person dead
On February 8 and 9, 2007 there were three nazi attacks committed in Russia: one in Nizhny Novgorod and two in Moscow. Presumably, this series of attacks was committed in commemoration of Pawel Ryazanzev, a rightwing radical activist, who was killed in Moscow 40 days before.
Hate crimes in January, 2007 in Russia
In January, 2007 at least 39 people, 7 of them dead, became victims of hate crimes in Russia. Moscow remained the center of racist and neo-nazi violence: all of the murders and 11 more attacks were committed there. The attack on a 20-year old antifascist Ivan Jelin on January 14, 2007, in St. Petersburg, became the high profile case of the month.
European Court of Human Rights dismissed a complaint of a Russian nationalist
We publish a decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) pronounced on December 7, 2006, on the application by Igor Artyomov, the leader of "Russian All-Nation Union".
Igor Artyomov applied to ECHR on May 13, 2005, after all the degrees of jurisdiction in Russian Federation had refused to register his movement as a political party. The dismissals were based on the word "Russian" in the name of the party. It contradicts the Political Parties Act prohibiting the establishment of political parties based on professional, racial, ethnic or religious affiliations.
An attempted murder of an antifascist activist in Moscow
On December 22, 2006 about 5 p.m. in Moscow there was an attempt to murder 20 year old Tigran, an antifascist activist and one of the creators of
www.antifa.ru website. Somebody painted a swastika on a wall and fastened a plate with an anti-Caucasian offensive inscription on a central heating radiator near the Tigran's flat. The plate turned out to be a mine.
29 victims in the first decade of December, 2006
Skinhead violence has been stepping up in the beginning of December. During the decade there were attacks in 6 Russian regions: Moscow, St. Petersburg, the Krasnodar Territory, Yaroslavl, Cheboksary and Vladivostok. The number of victims of these attacks in total is 29 people, including 2 people dead.
"Tolerance Week" as a Cause for Racist Violence
On November 9-16, 2006 in a number of Russian cities and towns a series of actions took place within the framework of the "Tolerance Week". Meanwhile, the second and the third week of November happened to be also a period of a sudden outburst of neo-nazi violence.
Ultra-nationalists and anti-fascists have celebrated the Day of National Unity
On 4 November 2006, rallies and marches took place in a number of Russian cities to celebrate the Day of National Unity; these actions were organized by right-wing radical groups under a collective name of Russian March. To remind, overall coordination of these events originally planned in 7 Russian cities (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, Syktyvkar, Chita, Irkutsk, and Volgograd), was performed by activists of the Movement against Illegal Immigration (DPNI).
