Racism and xenophobia. Results of January 2014

In January 2014 from racist and neo-Nazi motivated attacks injured at least 11 people, including 1 person, a native of Uzbekistan in Moscow, died.

At least 4 acts were recorded in the past month vandalism, which can be regarded as motivated by hatred or neo-Nazi ideologies.

In January, the nationalists held several "people's gatherings”, seeking to mobilize xenophobic emotions. But nowhere did these shares become massive.

On January 11, near the central stadium in Astrakhan, a meeting about the death after a local girl Galia Borisenko, who was allegedly abducted and for some time was enslaved by native of Dagestan. In continuation of this action On January 20, the local branch of the “Russians” association also held a rally “against ethno-crime”.

On January 15, a gathering was held in the Moscow district of Novokosino, where November 2013 conflict flares up around the construction of a building that is supposed to become a hostel hotel for migrants. At the rally, some of the protesters were detained by the police. Data detentions hit the media, and information about the situation in the area is quite widely spread, including on far-right websites.

On January 25, in Biryulyovo, the "Russians" association held a "people's gathering”, the reason for which was the murder of 17-year-old pregnant Anastasia Moskovkina presumably a young man with a "non-Slavic appearance".

In January, the far right continued to carry out raids looking for “illegal migrants." In St. Petersburg, the association "Russians" on January 11 and 19 in Krasnogvardeisky district of St. Petersburg conducted a raid on shops, allegedly belonging to immigrants from the Caucasus. January 13 in the city of Mytishchi in a police raid and The FMS was attended by activists of the Great Russia movement.

In January 2014, there were at least four indictments convictions in cases of racist violence, in which at least 10 people in four regions of the country.

At least 12 sentences were handed down for xenophobic propaganda in 10 regions of the country. In these trials, 12 people were convicted.

Federal list of extremist materials updated twice (14 and 24 January) in 2014. Items were added to it. 2180-2201. These updates included articles from the Islamist site hunafa.com, a mirror of the site "Jamaat Takbir", a range of neo-Nazi materials from the social network VKontakte (videos, texts and comments), far-right site Shturm-Novosti .

On January 19, the annual All-Russian action in memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova. In Moscow , despite the frost, 650 people took part in the anti-fascist procession and rally. Human. No incidents were noticed during the march, but after there were several attacks on the participants of the event.

Participants also faced threats and attacks from nationalists. shares not only in Moscow. In St. Petersburg, nationalists from the party "Great Russia” (North-West) distributed threats on the Internet in connection with the alleged presence of LGBT activists at the rallies, because they allegedly “ disgrace Feast of the Epiphany" . Several clashes of neo-Nazis took place on Vosstaniya Square with the participants of the action. Documentary screening canceled in Perm due to threats from right-wing radicals Valery Balayan about Anastasia Baburova "Love me, please", timed by this date.