Racism and xenophobia in Russia. Results of November 2012

In November 2012, as a result of xenophobic and neo-Nazi motivated 13 people were injured in the attacks, 4 of them died. Victims of attacks this month, the natives of Central Asia (2 killed, 3 beaten), the Caucasus (3 beaten), representatives of informal youth movements (3 beaten), homeless (2 killed). The attacks took place in Moscow and the Moscow region, Krasnoyarsk.

Since the beginning of the year, 15 people have died and 161 have been injured from racist violence, 1 received a death threat. Racist attacks were recorded on 28 regions of Russia. The main outbreaks in 2012 were Moscow (2 dead, 59 beaten) with the Moscow region (2 dead, 20 wounded), St. Petersburg (1 dead, 19 wounded) and the Republic of Bashkortostan (19 wounded).

Traditionally, the main public event of the autumn, organized by the far right, was the "Russian march" November 4. In Moscow, the main event was held along the route Yakimanskaya embankment is Krymsky Val and gathered, according to the observers of the SOVA center, about 5.5 thousand people. At the end of the march at the metro station "Dostoevskaya" nationalists attacked anti-fascists on their way to their rally on Suvorovskaya Square. According to the Ministry of the Interior, as a result of the fight, there were seriously injured.

Except that under the brand "Russian March" processions, rallies, religious processions and pickets were held in no less than 45 cities of Russia, but almost nowhere the actions became massive, with the exception of Krasnodar (1000 people), Novosibirsk (600 people), Perm (450 people), Voronezh, Kirov, Nizhny Novgorod (300 people each).

We are aware of 5 acts of vandalism in November 2012. In Tula on the wall Orthodox church appeared inscriptions of a Satanic persuasion. In Moscow there were buildings of Mormons, Seventh-day Adventists and Scientologists have been vandalized. Except In addition, far-right Vladimir Smirnov, well-known from St. Petersburg, tried to to fix a pig's head and a model of an improvised explosive device on the building of the mosque device, but was detained by the FSB. (Earlier V. Smirnov repeatedly was held criminally responsible including for serious violent crimes, as well as for inciting hatred and participation in illegal arms trafficking, but every time he was convicted conditionally.) In 2012, we recorded 89 acts of ideologically motivated vandalism in 38 regions of the country.

In November 2012, there were at least 5 convictions for cases of racist violence in which the motive of hatred was taken into account - in Vladimir, Volgograd and Tomsk regions, Krasnodar and Perm regions. In these trials, 10 people were convicted.

Since the beginning of the year, there have been at least 25 convictions for racist violence, in which the motive of hatred was taken into account, against 64 people in 17 regions of the country.

For xenophobic propaganda in November 2012, at least 8 sentences against 8 people - in Arkhangelsk, Vladimir, Kurgan, Kursk, Nizhny Novgorod, Novgorod and Pskov regions, the Komi Republic.

A total of 79 indictments were issued in 2012 in cases of racist propaganda. sentences against 90 people in 42 regions.

During the past month, the Federal List of Extremist Materials replenished six times (6,9,15,16 on November 23 and 28), it was supplemented with Nos. 1475-1539. The list was replenished: publications popular with Nazi skinheads (including the cult book D. Nesterov "Skins: Rus' is awakening"), historical falsifications of the twentieth century ("Protocols of the Elders of Zion", "Notes on ritual murders" and others), regular issues of nationalist newspapers ("Russian Pravda", "For the Russian Cause", "Russian Life"), one of the numbers newspapers "Cossack Rus", materials of the Yuzhno-Sakhalin branch of the SS and Novosibirsk organization "Northern Brotherhood", the newspaper of the neo-pagan "Spiritual-ancestral state of Rus'" and neo-pagan nationalist website "Rodosvet", xenophobic video and audio clips and remarks from forums and from networks "VKontakte", disks with films of the far right, texts of Russian football fans and an American journalist's investigation of English fans, articles from the neo-Nazi site NS-WP, Boris' Resistance site Stomakhin (in November 2012 B. Stomakhin was again arrested for posting Internet and charged under Part 1 of Art. 205.2 (public calls for implementation terrorist activities) and Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity)), materials from the site of radical anarchists, Muslim religious writings, Islamist radical sites. Materials were entered with a huge number of errors, even in the names of the authors. One of the items was re-introduced, which was caused by a parallel decision of another court.