Suspects of distributing racist leaflets detained in the Astrakhan region

on suspicion of producing and distributing leaflets inciting ethnic hatred. In early April 2007 , two vocational school students and one high school student were detained

Their processors and printer were confiscated, which, according to the investigation, could have been used to produce leaflets. A criminal case has been initiated under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("incitement of national hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity on the grounds of nationality"). With regard to teenagers, a measure of restraint was chosen - a written undertaking not to leave.

Sources

• In the Astrakhan region, teenagers distributed extremist leaflets // Caucasian knot. 2007. April 3.