Racist threats in Ryazan

On March 5, 2009, in Ryazan, near the monument to Russian-Armenian friendship near Narodny Boulevard, a group of young people shouted racist threats against a minor native of the Caucasus.

According to the prosecutor's office, the group expressed "obvious disrespect" to the teenager, insulted him because of his nationality and dark skin color, threatened him, shouted slogans containing signs of Nazism and threats against people from the Caucasus .

The mother of the victim appealed to the prosecutor's office of the Moscow district of the city "about the use of threats of physical violence against her minor son on the basis of his nationality . "

The prosecutor of the district sent a submission to the head of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Moskovsky district of the city district of Ryazan demanding "strengthening preventive measures aimed at preventing such facts and intensifying actions to identify persons prone to extremism in the district . "

Sources

• The prosecutor's office takes measures against extremism in Ryazan // Official website of the prosecutor's office of the Ryazan region. March 5, 2009