Racism and xenophobia in Russia. Results of July 2012

In July 2012 years, at least 12 people suffered from racist and neo-Nazi violence a person, one of whom died (a native of Tajikistan in the Moscow region). attacks were recorded in the Moscow region and the Komi Republic.

Total since racist violence killed 10 people and injured 109 at the beginning of the year, 1 received a death threat. Incidents were recorded in 19 regions of Russia, and still the main focus of violence is Moscow (1 dead, 35 injured) with the Moscow region (1 dead, 17 wounded) and St. Petersburg (1 dead, 18 wounded). A large number of victims in the Republic of Bashkortostan (11 beaten). In other regions, the number of victims does not exceed 5 people. The main objects of attack are representatives of youth and informal groups (44 beaten), natives of Central Asia (2 dead, 19 injured), blacks (16 beaten), Jehovah's Witnesses (7 wounded), natives of the Caucasus (2 dead, 3 wounded).

In July 2012 14 acts of vandalism were recorded in 10 regions of the country in which there are reason to suspect xenophobia. The main objects of attack in July were ideological objects (5 cases), Jewish (4 cases), Protestant objects, buildings of Jehovah's Witnesses (2 cases each). In addition, at the hands of vandals also Catholic, Orthodox and Muslim buildings were damaged (1 case each).

Total since beginning of the year in Russia, we recorded 45 acts of neo-Nazi vandalism in 24 regions of the country.

public ultra-right activity was not high in July. The largest share was organized by the Right to Arms movement (Maria Butina), which was was held on July 1 on the anniversary of the events in Sagra in several cities of the country. IN Moscow in a rally held near the metro station "Ulitsa 1905 Goda" was attended by several movements at once, mostly nationalist: the Liberal Democratic Party, Libertarian Party (Alexander Shirokovskikh-Smirnov), National Democratic Party (NDP, K. Krylov, V. Tor), Great Russia (A. Savelyev), Right-Conservative Alliance (PKA, A. Mikhailov). In addition, the actions took place in St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Syktyvkar, Barnaul.

right-wing radicals tried to give the tragedy in Krymsk an ethno-national color: on the website association "Russians" there was a message about the flaring up in Krymsk "interethnic conflict". They continued to engage in promotion on "Kondopoga technology" of various local conflicts, such as the conflict local residents with immigrants from Dagestan in the village of Demyanovo, Kirov region.

In July 2012 year, at least 4 convictions were handed down against 8 people for racist violence, in which the motive of hatred was recognized by the court - in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Astrakhan region and Republic of Altai. The most notable of them was the verdict of the St. city ​​court to the leader of the neo-Nazi group NS / WP Georgy Timofeev, who received 13 years in a strict regime colony. In addition, on 23 July 2012 the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation considered a complaint against the sentence of the Moscow City Court to members neo-Nazi group "Autonomous Combat Terrorist Organization" (ABTO) and mitigated the punishment of four convicts. It is noteworthy that one of ABTO activists Ksenia Povazhnaya is a member of "Association of white prisoners of war and political prisoners named after Rudolf Hess”, which is headed by a life-sentenced for the explosion on Cherkizovsky Market Nikola Korolev.

Total since At the beginning of the year, there were 16 convictions for violent crimes, which the court recognized the motive of hatred. 45 people were convicted in these trials. in 12 regions of the country.

Behind xenophobic propaganda in July 2012, 9 indictments were sentences in 8 regions of the country. 9 people were convicted under these sentences, 5 of which were sentenced to compulsory labor, 1 person to correctional work, 1 person to a suspended sentence, 1 fined, 1 sentenced to imprisonment (together with previous crimes).

Total since At the beginning of 2012, 47 sentences were handed down for xenophobic propaganda against 67 people in 33 regions of the country.

During last month, the Federal List of Extremist Materials was replenished 6 times, paragraphs 1272-1364 were included in it. Added to the list are xenophobic videos from the VKontakte network recognized as extremist by various courts Kursk and Murmansk regions, opposition a leaflet, an article by the NPF "Pamyat", two neo-pagan books, a number of Islamist materials, including articles calling for armed jihad from websites kavkazweb, islamdin, djamaattakbir.com.

18 On July 1, the Blood & Honor association was added to the list by mistake, recognized as extremist by the Supreme Court Russian Federation May 29, 2012 After the publication of the news on the website of the SOVA center, the error was corrected, the organization was deleted from there without saving the numbering and added to the Federal List of Extremist Organizations . So the official list extremist organizations are now 29 organizations (organizations recognized terrorist, are not yet included in this list).