Racism and xenophobia. Results of June 2013

We are not aware of any casualties violent incidents involving racist and xenophobic motivated violence in June 2013. Only the first six months in 22 regions of Russia, 6 people died and at least 76 were injured two people received serious death threats.

At least 2 acts of vandalism took place in June, motivated by hatred or neo-Nazi ideological attitudes - the synagogue in Smolensk and the mosque in Ivanovo suffered. Total since the beginning of the year there were at least 27 such actions.

The largest action of nationalists in June was an attack on a geological exploration camp in the Voronezh region - right-wing radicals in their own way joined protests against nickel mining at the site of the Elan copper-nickel deposit. On the evening of June 22, 2013, in the Novokhopersk district, about a thousand people, led by nationalists and Cossacks, broke into the territory of the exploration camp and set fire to drilling rigs and some buildings. Who exactly took part in attacks is not very clear. But, according to local media and law enforcement agencies, most of the attackers are nationalists, often wearing masks, who arrived the day before by bus from Voronezh, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Samara and Krasnodar.

Increasingly, nationalists use violence actions of LGBT activists, even if they are under police protection (as 29 June in Saint Petersburg). And on June 25, a group of more than 30 nationalists blocked the entrance to the building where the court on the recognition of the LGBT organization Vykhod was held “foreign agent” and by force did not let anyone into court, including even lawyer of the "Exit", that is, directly obstructed justice.

Raids on places where migrants live are becoming more and more popular among right-wing radicals. Since spring 2013 one of the most active groups in this field - "Shield of Moscow" , led by FC Lokomotiv fan Alexei Khudyakov (closely associated with movement "Young Russia"). June 28 in Moscow, activists of the movement "Shield of Moscow" broke into the hostel building along Fabricius Street, which led to a collision with labor migrants from Central Asia who lived there. At the same time, the participants of the raid threatened traumatic weapon.

Meeting the activity of nationalists was low during the reporting period. Of the public events, one can note only general opposition march on June 12, which was dedicated to the "prisoners of Bolotnaya", but in no more than 100 people from the nationalists participated in it. The Nationalists held this day and their own event in Lublin called "For the legitimate power and Genuine Sovereignty”, which gathered, according to various estimates, from 100 to 300 people.

It is also worth noting held on June 4 in Orel, the annual Yermolovsky March, in which about 140 people.

far right tried to spin violent conflicts in which people participated different nationalities. The loudest of them was the situation in the city Udomlya Tver region: June 8, after fights of several local residents with people from the Caucasus, a national gathering took place against "ethnic crime", which, according to police estimates, gathered 300-400 people. Nikolai Bondarik took a direct part in its organization (“Russian the consignment").

IN June 2013, only one conviction is known in cases of racist violence, in which the motive of hatred was taken into account. It was taken out in Volgograd. Since the beginning of the year, there have been at least 18 convictions for racist violence, in which the motive of hatred was taken into account, against 29 people.

For xenophobic propaganda in June 2013 was at least 14 sentences were handed down against 14 people in 14 regions of the country. Total in the first six months of 2012 in cases of racist propaganda, at least 50 sentences in 33 regions of the country, on which 50 were convicted person (including those who were not punished due to the expiration of statute of limitations or referred for compulsory treatment).

In June, the Federal List of Extremist materials was replenished only once, items 1915-1920 were included in it. IN the list included: a book by NOMP leader Vladimir Kvachkov, racist and Islamist materials and one educational Muslim brochure.

June 28, 2013 The Moscow City Court banned the Autonomous Combat Terrorist Organization (ABTO), whose members in 2009 - early 2010 committed eight terrorist attacks against law enforcement officers and visitors from the Caucasus. The ABTO was banned precisely as a terrorist organization, and not just as extremist, and this is the first time such a measure has been applied in Russia to a right-wing radical organizations (and in general - not to Islamist).