Deputy Prosecutor of Moscow: “Among high school students, justifying the activities of Nazi skinheads is typical for one quarter of young people”

August 5, 2011 at the Collegium of the Prosecutor's Office Moscow Deputy City Prosecutor Vladimir Yudin reported that almost a quarter of high school students in Moscow schools, to one degree or another, justify activities of Nazi skinheads.

" Results survey conducted by the Department of Education of the city of Moscow among students in grades 9-11 showed that among high school students the justification skinhead activity is typical for one quarter of young people ," said He.

The deputy prosecutor of the city stated that before the prosecutors the task is to pay attention to the prevention of extremism among adolescents. " Considerable attention should be paid to working with teenagers prone to committing extremist actions ," he said, recalling the events on Manezhnaya Square. For six months, about 1.3 thousand preventive measures with young people.

In his report, the deputy prosecutor noted that in 2011 In 2009, prosecutors seriously stepped up efforts to prevent extremism in Moscow. " The number of suppressed violations in this area increased by 15%, by 2.7 times the number of persons held accountable has grown ,” he said.

In addition, the number of applications submitted has doubled. by the prosecutor's office to the courts of claims for the recognition of materials as extremist and was filed lawsuit for recognition as an extremist organization "Movement against illegal migration".

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• A quarter of Moscow high school students justify the activities of skinheads // ITAR-TASS. 2011. August 5.