April 2010. Results of the month

In April 2010, at least 18 people were injured in racist and neo-Nazi attacks, 3 of whom died. In addition to Moscow (1 dead, 6 wounded) and St. Petersburg (5 wounded), incidents were recorded in Nizhny Novgorod (1 dead), Orel (1 dead, 1 wounded), Saratov (1 beaten) and Ryazan (2 beaten). In April 2009, 3 people were killed and 27 others were beaten and injured.

In total, in the first four months of 2010, 15 people died and at least 103 were injured in 24 regions of Russia. (From January to April 2009, 30 people died and 149 were injured.)

In April, at least 9 convictions were handed down in cases of racist violence, in which the motive of hatred was taken into account: in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan and Sverdlovsk regions, Krasnodar Territory, Chuvashia and Tatarstan. In total, 29 people were convicted in these processes (including 10 - conditionally without additional sanctions).

In total, since the beginning of the year, there have been at least 18 convictions for racist violence, in which the motive of hatred against 74 people was taken into account (25 of them were sentenced on probation).

For xenophobic propaganda in April 2010, 4 sentences were passed - in Karelia, Astrakhan, Arkhangelsk and Smolensk regions. Four people were convicted in them, and two of them were released from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. For the same reason, the trial of a racist policeman from the Leningrad Region did not end. Moreover, in this case, it was obvious that the process was deliberately delayed until the expiration of the statute of limitations on the part of the defense.

In April 2010, the Federal List of Extremist Materials was updated twice (April 2 and 22). It included paragraphs. 575-592. Thus, as of April 30, 2010, the list includes 592 positions, 33 of which duplicate each other, 5 are in the list illegally, because. decisions on recognizing them as extremist were canceled, and one position was annulled.

The most resonant event in April 2010, apparently, was the decision of the Moscow City Court to recognize Dmitry Demushkin's Slavic Union as an extremist organization. It should be noted that the process was carried out in an unusually short time: the first court session took place on April 13, and on April 27 a decision was made on the ban. If D. Demushkin fails to challenge the court decision, the SS will add to the relevant Federal List, which currently includes 11 organizations recognized as extremist (including the National Socialist Society and the Ryazan branch of the RNE).