On June 3, 2005, Sergey Vikhrov, head of the Department for Organizing the Activities of Precinct Police Commissioners of the Juvenile Affairs Units of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region, said that law enforcement agencies are concerned about "the so-called informal youth associations, including "skinheads", football fans and fans " . "Only in the database of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the region near Moscow, there are about two thousand such teenagers, but these are not only residents of the Moscow region, but also residents of Moscow and other cities who fell into the field of view of the police," he said .
We remind you that on June 1, 2005, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Rashid Nurgaliev, at an expanded meeting of the collegium of the Ministry of Internal Affairs , stated that in Russia "about 150 extremist groups, uniting more than 5 thousand people, are registered with the Department for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. "
Moscow region: the Central Internal Affairs Directorate has information about two thousand "skinheads" // RIA Novosti. 2005. June 3