Racism and xenophobia. Results of January 2013.

In January 2013, at least 13 people suffered from racist and neo-Nazi motivated attacks, of which 2 people, natives of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, died in Moscow, and 11 people were beaten. Most of the victims were LGBT people, who were attacked inMoscow and Voronezh .

At least 3 acts of vandalism were recorded, which can be regarded as motivated by hatred or neo-Nazi ideological principles: on Christmas night, three Orthodox churches in Vladimir were damaged.

Among the nationalists’ own actions, we can mention the all-Russian action on January 26, 2013 in support of the residents of Nevinnomyssk, where in December mass protests of local residents took place after the murder of local resident Nikolai Naumenko by a native of Chechnya on the night of December 6. Most of the pickets were organized by Valery Solovy’s “New Force” party; they took place under the slogans “Stavropol is not the Caucasus” and “Stop killing Russians.”

In January 2013, there were no convictions in cases of racist violence or racist vandalism where a hate motive was taken into account.

But at least four sentences were passed for xenophobic propaganda in the Kaluga, Rostov, Samara and Sverdlovsk regions. In these trials, 4 people were convicted: two were sentenced to correctional labor, one to compulsory labor under Article 282 of the Criminal Code; and one person - Pyotr Molodidov, who is already serving a 17-year sentence for committing the murder of several people with extreme cruelty - was sentenced under Art. 280 and 282 of the Criminal Code to two years in prison for publishing in the newspaper “Cossack View” a xenophobic article “Peter Molodidov: for “Cossacks” for the Cossacks,” which was declared extremist in December last year.

On January 28, the leader of the National Democratic Party of Russia, Konstantin Krylov, was sentenced to 120 hours of compulsory labor. We have written more than once that the speech at the rally for which he was convicted formally complies with the provisions of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code, but does not pose an increased public danger and should not be the subject of criminal prosecution.

In January, the Federal List of Extremist Materials was updated four times (January 10, 18, 22 and 24). Paragraphs were added to it. 1590-1656. These updates included: xenophobic audio and video and text materials from the VKontakte network, anti-Caucasian comments from the Novosibirsk municipal website, an anti-Caucasian leaflet, songs by the groups “Shtandart”, “Vlok” and “Lyuten”, another book by the neo-pagan Dobroslav, anti-Semitic and xenophobic publications, including the book by the veteran of Russian nationalism A. Ivanov “The Dawns and Twilight of the Aryan Gods. Racial Religious Studies" and the article "Catachesis of the Jew in the USSR" (previously included in the list), books with quotes from Hitler, memoirs of the NSDAP ideologist Alfred Rosenberg, writings of the Norwegian black metal musician Varg Vikernes, anti-government videos from YouTube, Muslim religious books , the Islamic site ansardin.wordpress.com and materials from the Internet blog http//alstrangers.livejournal.com, several issues of the Islamist magazine Al-Way, the latest books by Said Nursi.

The most notable event of January in the field of public counteraction to xenophobia was the annual all-Russian event in memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova. It took place on January 19 in 15 cities of Russia. In Moscow, about 600-700 people took part in the anti-fascist march and rally. A picket was held in St. Petersburg because the authorities did not approve the rally. Before the start of the picket, several people clashed with the ultra-right in front of the Vitebsk railway station.