March 2010. Results of the month

In March 2010, at least 15 people were injured in racist and neo-Nazi attacks, three of whom were killed (in March 2009, three were killed and at least 30 were injured).

Violent incidents were recorded in Moscow (2 dead, 6 injured), St. Petersburg (2 injured), Volgograd (at least 3 injured), Yaroslavl (1 dead) and Murmansk (1 injured).

Since the beginning of the year, violent racist and neo-Nazi incidents have occurred in 20 regions of Russia. At least 10 people were killed and at least 73 people were injured. Moscow (6 dead, 18 wounded), St. Petersburg (16 injured) and Nizhny Novgorod (1 dead, 6 wounded) are still leading among Russian regions.

In March 2010, at least 5 convictions were handed down in cases of racist violence in which a hate motive was found - in Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Samara and Ulyanovsk. In these processes, 26 people were convicted (3 of them - conditionally).

Since the beginning of the year, eight such sentences have been handed down in seven regions. 39 people were convicted in them (12 of them - conditionally without additional sanctions).

Only one sentence was handed down for xenophobic propaganda in March. According to Art. 280 in the Amur Region, a graffiti artist was conditionally convicted without additional sanctions.

was updated three times (March 1, 15 and 29) The Federal List of Extremist Materials . It has grown from 493 points to 574. The vast majority of prohibited materials belong to Jehovah's Witnesses, whose mass persecution campaign is not slowing down.

After a long break (since August 2009), the Federal List of Extremist Organizations has been updated to include the Taganrog Local Religious Organization of Jehovah's Witnesses and the Ryazan City Public Patriotic Organization Russian National Unity. Thus, there are 11 organizations on the list now.

In addition, it is worth noting the suspension by the prosecutor's office of the activities of the Slavic Union of Dmitry Demushkin, which was undertaken to secure a lawsuit to recognize the organization as extremist, with which the prosecutor's office filed a lawsuit.

Another landmark decision at the end of March is the injunction against A. Hitler's book: Mein Kampf; we cannot evaluate positively . All the works of Hitler are a priori prohibited by the Federal Law: On Counteracting Extremist Activities; and do not require separate court decisions and inclusion from the already huge and non-functional Federal List of Extremist Materials.