Syktyvkar: war on walls and paper

The beginning of August 2005 in Syktyvkar was marked by the appearance of anti-Caucasian leaflets and neo-Nazi, anti-Caucasian and anti-Semitic graffiti on the walls.

Flyers with the text "Daddy, will you protect me from blacks?" distributed on the streets of the Komi capital on behalf of a certain "Russian liberation movement". The national-cultural autonomies of Komi have already issued an appeal to law enforcement agencies with a demand to find the organizers of the xenophobic action. This indignation was fully shared by officials: according to the head of the Department of National Policy under the Ministry of Culture and National Policy of Komi, Yevgeny Rozhkin, "there have not been such leaflets on the streets of Syktyvkar for about ten years . "

Xenophobic graffiti, which appear with enviable regularity on the walls of Syktyvkar buildings, have also begun to be actively updated. Inscriptions of anti-Caucasian and anti-Semitic content, "illustrated" with a swastika, began to appear at the end of July. And after the activists of the Syktyvkar branch of the MPD tried to gloss over these "art", the inscriptions appeared again and already with threats against the MPD.

First blood. Neo-fascists in Syktyvkar began to attack people from the Caucasus // KPK "Memorial" (Syktyvkar). 2005. August 16.

Sources

• National-cultural associations of Komi demand to find the authors of leaflets inciting ethnic hatred // Peoples of Russia (with reference to Komiinform). 2005. August 16.