February 2010. Results of the month

In February 2010, at least 26 people were injured in racist and neo-Nazi attacks, four of whom died (in February 2009, at least 26 people were injured, two of them died).

Violent incidents were recorded in Moscow (2 dead, 3 injured), St. Petersburg (at least 5 injured), Barnaul (1 dead, 3 injured), Veliky Novgorod and Intercession of the Vladimir Region (2 injured each), Nizhny Novgorod (1 dead and 5 victims), Izhevsk and Irkutsk (1 victim each).

In total, since the beginning of the year, according to the SOVA Center, at least 7 people have died and at least 39 people have been injured.

In February 2010, at least 3 sentences were handed down (in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Ufa) against 16 people for violent crimes in which the motive of hatred was recognized (including two were sentenced on probation without additional sanctions). The guilt of three more defendants (in Moscow in the case of the White Wolves group) was considered by the jury to be unproven. (Note that the case of the "White Wolves" is the first successful case of the "Russian Verdict". At the same time, the tactics of the latter have not changed - discrediting the investigation and the court, publications that jeopardize the safety of participants in the process representing the state, etc.)

In total, since the beginning of the year, at least 5 guilty verdicts were issued, in which the motive of hatred was recognized, against 27 people.

In February 2010, at least 5 convictions were handed down for xenophobic propaganda - in the Republics of Buryatia and Komi, St. Petersburg, Kostroma and Voronezh. In these trials, 7 people were convicted. Moreover, 6 of them are conditionally without additional sanctions. Only Konstantin Dushenov, editor and publisher of the St. Petersburg anti-Semitic newspaper Rus Pravoslavnaya, received real punishment. In addition, he was deprived of the right to engage in publishing activities for three years (the most adequate, but extremely rarely applied punishment for xenophobic propagandists).

The Supreme Court of Russia in February 2010 ruled twice to ban organizations. On February 1, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, the National Socialist Society, a far-right network organization, many of whose members are currently under investigation or trial for numerous racist murders, attacks and terrorist attacks, was recognized as extremist. And on February 25, the Emarat Kavkaz (Caucasian Emirate), created by Doku Umarov, was recognized as a terrorist organization. Unfortunately, the texts of the decisions of the Supreme Court on these prohibitions have not yet been published.

In February, the Federal List of Extremist Materials was updated twice (February 3 and 27). Items were added to it. 475-493.