Racism and xenophobia. Results of March 2014

In March 2014 from Far-right attacks have injured at least 13 people in Moscow, Moscow and Irkutsk regions. Of these, one person died. As far as we know, over the past month, right-wing radicals at least three times organized "cleansing" in subway cars (the so-called "white wagons").

Since the beginning of the year at least 29 people suffered from racist attacks, of which 7 people died. These attacks took place in 9 regions of Russia: Moscow and Moscow region, St. Petersburg, Vladimir, Irkutsk and Sakhalin regions, the Republic of Karelia and Tatarstan, Perm Territory (recall, these statistics do not include victims incidents that occurred in the republics of the North Caucasus).

In March we recorded at least 6 acts of vandalism, which could be regarded as motivated by hatred or neo-Nazi ideological attitudes. Total Since the beginning of the year, at least 12 such acts of vandals have taken place.

Far-right activity has increased in the past month. Practically all more or less large ultra-right organizations spoke out about the events in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea, the entry of which into Russia is the majority approves (Crimea is often referred to as "Russian land").

Some of the nationalist organizations held actions in support for Russian-speaking residents of Ukraine, against the Ukrainian authorities and for Russian policy in the region. On March 1, an action of the "People's Cathedral" was held, at which about 100-150 people gathered. March 15 in Moscow in Novopushkinsky square the action was carried out by the Union of Orthodox banner-bearers, and activists joined it "Great Russia" and the Liberal Democratic Party. And on March 9, on the Field of Mars in St. Petersburg, rally, which was attended by activists of the "People's Cathedral", the party "Great Fatherland", "Motherland", Russian imperial movement and the Cossacks.

A number of organizations (in particular, within the framework of the Russian Spring”) sent their activists to the southern and eastern regions of Ukraine. IN At the end of March, the Security Service of Ukraine expelled a member of the organization from the country "Black Hundred" Petersburger Anton Raevsky "for inciting interethnic enmity."

However, some nationalists also took part in the March peace”, which took place on March 15 in Moscow. Observers of the Sova Center noticed on march symbols of the following nationalist associations: "Russian Right Party" V. Ivanov (Istarkhova), "Narodnaya Volya", imperial flag with the inscription RONA, RGS. Several people were detained for Nazi-like symbols.

In addition, the issue of introducing amendments to the law on citizenship, the preliminary consideration of which in the State Duma was in the Duma on March 21. Associations "Russians" on this occasion conducted a campaign "Russians against the distribution of citizenship." On March 19, about 25 activists of the "Russians" gathered on Pushkinskaya Square to an unauthorized picket. March 18-19 "Russians" held sticker campaigns in Khimki and Dolgoprudny. On March 21, actions were held in several cities of the country in Moscow, Petersburg, Orel, Khabarovsk.

March 1 in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Astrakhan, Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod, Penza, Ryazan, Khabarovsk hosted the traditional "Day of Heroes", dedicated to the Pskov paratroopers who died in 2000 in a battle in Chechnya.

In March, the far right continued to hold raids to search for illegal immigrants. Unfortunately, their cooperation with law enforcement agencies. Association "Russians" published on the website the Guestbusters project message stating that on February 17, together with employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Migration Service, they checked passengers train "Tashkent - St. Petersburg".

We are unknown convictions for racist violence handed down in March 2014. Total since the beginning 6 convictions were handed down for violent crimes in which the hate motive was recognized by the courts in 5 regions of the country. In these processes 13 people were convicted.

For xenophobic propaganda in March, 7 sentences were handed down against 7 people in 7 regions countries. In total, since the beginning of the year, racist and other far-right propaganda has been at least 24 sentences were handed down, in which 25 people were convicted in 20 regions countries.

Draws on itself attention sentence , rendered March 17, 2014 Ostankinsky District Court of Moscow to one of the leaders of the association "Russians" Dmitry Demushkin under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code (organization of activities prohibited organizations). The nationalist was sentenced to a fine of 200 thousand rubles, but the court exempted him from payment in connection with expiration of the statute of limitations. Sentence surprises: it is not clear why this case was investigated for so long and how all other charges were excluded from him, and the activities of the banned for extremism of the Slavic Union of Demushkin essentially continues to this day in the form "Slavic Force", which is part of the "Russian" association.

Federal list of extremist materials for the month was updated five times (March 5, 7, 14, 24 and 27). In it were included paragraphs 2225-2269. Added to the list: Islamic materials, including including videos of Caucasian militants, videos of the Hizb-ut-Tahrir party, article materials from the site hunafa.com, issue of the newspaper "New time of Udmurtia", site Boris Stomakhin and articles from him, articles from the anarchist magazine Avtonom, website Movements Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) and other far-right materials from social network "VKontakte", (including the picture from the page "Russia for cats"), an anti-Semitic children's book by Ernst Chimer "Toadstool" of the times Nazi Germany, racist slogans and posters.

In March the community was added to the Federal List of Extremist Organizations faizrakhmanists, recognized as extremist by the decision of the Soviet District Court of Kazan of the Republic of Tatarstan dated February 21, 2013. Thus, the federal list extremist organizations includes 34 organizations (not including 19 organizations that are recognized as terrorist), whose activities are prohibited in judicial order, and the continuation of this activity is punishable under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.