Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate counts extremists

On April 2, 2007, at a joint meeting of the heads of law enforcement agencies in Moscow and the Presidium of the Interethnic Advisory Council, Moscow police chief Vladimir Pronin announced that about 4,000 people were registered with the capital's police department, identifying themselves as extremist groups, both right and left. sense.

Recall that in 2005 the Moscow region police department reported about 2,000 extremist-minded young people in the region.

The head of the Moscow police department also said that one of the important activities of the metropolitan police should be the strengthening of public and professional control over the distribution of audiovisual, printed and other products containing elements of xenophobia, racial and religious intolerance.

Sources

• According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, about 4,000 people who consider themselves extremists are registered in the capital on a preventive basis. // City-FM. 2007. April 4.
• Moscow police intend to intensify the fight against extremists ahead of the elections // IA Regnum. 2007. April 4.