Presentation of the collection "The Price of Hate"

On November 2, 2005 in Moscow, at the Independent Press Center, a presentation of a new book by the SOVA Center " The Price of Hate. Nationalism in Russia and Counteraction to Racist Crimes" took place .

The participants of the press conference expressed their opinion on the problems of ethno-nationalism, xenophobia and opposition to them in Russia.

was presented. At the same time, a collection of reports "Monitoring of discrimination and national extremism in Russia for 2004" , issued by the Foundation "For Civil Society". Foundation Director Natalya Taubina presented a collection of regional reports on 9 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, which dealt not only with the problem of national extremism, but also with the situation of migrants in the regions.

Galina Kozhevnikova, Deputy Director of the SOVA Center, gave a brief overview of the situation related to racist violence, the activity of radical national groups and the government's counteraction to national extremism.

Sociologist Alexander Tarasov, using the example of Naberezhnye Chelny (Tatarstan), presented a real positive experience of public opposition to skinheads. He also drew the attention of those present to the fact that the excessive enthusiasm for patriotic rhetoric on the part of the authorities provokes the growth of xenophobic sentiments in Russian society.

An employee of the Research Institute of the Prosecutor General's Office, Mikhail Kroz, spoke about the difficulties of psycho-linguistic examination of texts that promote hatred, about the existing methodology for such an examination, developed by the Research Institute of the Prosecutor General's Office several years ago.

Director of the SOVA Center Alexander Verkhovsky began by discussing the degree of justification for the persecution of Hizb ut-Tahrir activists.

He then spoke about the application of the 2002 law "On Counteracting Extremist Activities." Due to the amorphous definitions, internal inconsistency and excessive rigidity, the actual application of this law is close to zero, and the persecution of national radicals, which has been carried out for the past three years, was carried out according to other legislative acts that existed before.

Then the participants of the press conference answered the journalists' questions.

Presentation of the collection &quot;The Price of Hate&quot;

Presentation of the collection "The Price of Hate"