November 2008. Results of the month

In November 2008, at least 18 people were injured (three of them died) as a result of racist and neo-Nazi attacks, carried out mainly by Nazi skinheads. In addition to Moscow, incidents were recorded in St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Penza and Kaliningrad. During the same period in 2007, we recorded 70 victims, 4 of whom died.

In total, during the 11 months of 2008, at least 82 people were killed and at least 348 people were injured. During the same period in 2007, 75 people died and 563 were injured. The significant increase in the number of deaths suggests that the number of wounded we recorded this year has not decreased, it is simply difficult to obtain information about incidents.

In addition to the Moscow (48 killed and 167 wounded) and St. Petersburg (15 killed and 34 wounded) regions, attacks were recorded in 37 regions of Russia. In addition to the two capitals, the top five cities with the most incidents were Voronezh (2 killed, 17 injured), Yekaterinburg (4 killed, 14 injured) and Nizhny Novgorod (2 killed, 12 injured). In them, the number of victims has either exceeded or equaled last year's figures.

The main group of victims is still made up of people from Central Asia - 46 killed and 94 injured since the beginning of the year.

Traditional tension in Russia was caused by the Russian March held in Russia on 4 November . Far-right rallies and marches took place in 13 Russian cities, and in at least two of them - Moscow and St. Petersburg - were accompanied by racist attacks.

In November 2008, one sentence was handed down for a violent hate crime - in the Kaluga region, 8 Nazi skinheads (six of them were minors) were convicted for a series of mercenary attacks motivated by ethnic hatred, one of which ended in the death of a person. All members of the group were found guilty, but the sentence turned out to be rather lenient - the criminals received from 6 years in prison in an educational colony to 2 years of probation. Due to the lenientness of the sentence, the prosecutor's office appealed it.

Only one sentence was handed down for propaganda. However, it is not connected with hate propaganda, but with extremist appeals (under Article 280 of the Criminal Code), however, according to law enforcement agencies, it also contained racist statements. It should be noted that the materials that served as the basis for the criminal prosecution were posted on an Internet forum, which once again confirms the tendency to shift the prosecution of nationalist propaganda towards its less significant (Internet forums) manifestations, while large and popular Internet resources remain without regard to the law.

In total, in 11 months of 2008, at least 25 convictions against 87 people were handed down for violent crimes with a hate motive, and at least 38 convictions against 50 people for hate propaganda.

continues to be actively replenished The federal list of extremist materials . In November 2008 it increased from 277 to 291 items and actually includes 282 items, because contains at least 9 pairs of repeating materials.