Neo-Nazi Viktor Korchagin will remain free

On July 6, 2005, the Moscow City Court dismissed the protest of the public prosecutor T. Kondratyeva regarding the decision of the Timiryazevsky District Court against the well-known neo-Nazi Viktor Korchagin. Recall that on June 6, 2005, Korchagin was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting ethnic hatred), but released from the execution of the sentence "due to the expiration of the statute of limitations."

As a result, the judges of the Moscow City Court upheld the decision of the district court, deciding to leave the accuser's cassation complaint unsatisfied.

Information provided by the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights.