Head of the FSB Directorate for the Nizhny Novgorod Region: There is no rampant nationalism in the region

On June 7, 2005, before the start of the meeting of the regional anti-terrorist commission, the head of the FSB department for the Nizhny Novgorod region, Vladimir Bulavin, told reporters that there was no rampant extremism, fascism, nationalism and racial intolerance in the region. According to him, there are certain negative trends in the region, which "must be responded to immediately in order to extinguish these processes at the very beginning" .

V. Bulavin noted that at present, special measures are being implemented on the territory of the region jointly by all authorities and law enforcement agencies to prevent the spread of extremism and nationalism, however, it has not yet been possible to completely eradicate these phenomena : there are two criminal cases, and this is bad . "

that in 2004-2005 in the Nizhny Novgorod region, Recall
1 murder and at least 7 attacks motivated by ethnic hatred.

Sources

• There is no rampant extremism and racial intolerance in the Nizhny Novgorod region - head of the UFSB Bulavin // NTA-Privolzhye 2005. June 7.
• Chunikhina N. "There is no racial intolerance and extremism in the Nizhny Novgorod region", - V. Bulavin // RIA "Kremlin" (Nizhny Novgorod). 2005. June 7th.