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Настоящий материал (информация) произведен и (или) распространен иностранным агентом Исследовательский центр «Сова» либо касается деятельности иностранного агента Исследовательский центр «Сова».
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.
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.
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.
Traditionally, April in Russia is associated with outbursts of racist violence. Contributing factors include Adolph Hitler's anniversary in April that Russian skinheads always try to mark by racist attacks, and simply the fact that it is usually warmer and Nazi-oriented teens spend more time outside.
This week marked the end of two high-profile trials, both involving violent racist crimes. Once again, they emphasized the importance of correct legal qualification of racist offences.
During one week two ultranationalists were arrested partly because of their activity on the Net.
And now we see some kind of panic on many ultranationalists' web-sites and forums. Some of them are closed, some other clean themselves from "dangerous" materials.
The end of 2005 was marked by two convictions in high-profile skinhead gang cases in St. Petersburg. Following the murder, in 2004, of Nikolai Girenko - an academic known for his opposition to neo-Nazi - and threats against Governor Valentina Matviyenko, the city's law enforcement voiced their commitment to investigate crimes by neo-Nazi skinhead gangs.
Elections to the Moscow City Duma and additional elections to the RF State Duma which took place in Moscow on 4 December 2005 were accompanied by active and extremely aggressive ethno-nationalist, and at times explicitly racist, campaigning. As a consequence, in early December, Moscow saw an outburst of racist violence. Within three days, on 3-5 December, two massive fights and three individual attacks involving neo-Nazi youth gangs were reported, in which two people were killed, two more were hospitalized, and the overall number of victims may be more than ten.
