Racism and xenophobia. Results of August 2015

In August 2015 from racist and neo-Nazi attacks affected at least five people in Moscow, St. Petersburg, in the Moscow and Rostov regions. Day The Airborne Forces passed this year calmer than usual: on August 2, only about one attack by paratroopers on people of "non-Slavic appearance" in Rostov-on-Don. On the same day, it was traditionally decided to announce themselves LGBT activists in St. Petersburg. They tried to come out with rainbows flags to the city center. Some of the activists, under various pretexts, immediately detained by the police, but two people still went to the Champ de Mars with posters, which were immediately taken away and torn up by paratroopers. Fortunately, before a direct attack did not come, it was prevented by the police.

Since the beginning of the year since racist violence killed 5 people and injured 47 people, 4 received threat of murder. These incidents were recorded in 12 regions of Russia.

It is worth noting the near-football conflicts. August 1 to, during during and after the match between CSKA and Anji, there were incidents between fans. During the match, CSKA fans chanted insulting xenophobic chants against the players and fans of the team from Makhachkala and hung out the banner "Animal planet".

In addition, far-right fans have tried to promote incident with the murder of a Spartak fan in Samara. Anton (Shaggy) Feoktistov, presumably member of the ultra-right association "School", was killed on the night of August 8-9 in club "Deck". A native of Kyrgyzstan, Mansur, was detained on suspicion of murder Isnailjanov (earlier the media reported that his name is T. Ishmanjonov). Fans held several actions in memory of Feoktistov.

It is worth noting the near-hockey incident, which attracted the attention of the ultra-right, the death of a fan of the Traktor hockey team Vitaly Spiridonova in a fight with "newcomers to the Caucasus" in Chelyabinsk in the "Topka" bar 4 August. Kamil Dzhamilov, a suspect in the murder, is a participant in the fighting without rules, which reminded the nationalists of the case of Rasul Mirzaev, and they joined the "unwind" of the incident.

The rally activity of the ultra-right was almost zero. Can commemorate the rally dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the peasant uprising in Tambovskaya region, on August 16 in Moscow on Suvorovskaya Square, which gathered no more than 15 Human. The event was organized by the Moscow department of RONA and activists "Irreconcilable League". The event was also attended by representatives of the movements Unity of Equals, European Action, independent activists.

In addition, on August 24 in Moscow on the square near the metro station "Ulitsa 1905” was held the action “Freedom to the Russian people! Against political repressions!”, which was carried out by organizations belonging to the Russian National Front (“Great Russia”, IGPR ZOV, “Party delo”, “Movement for nationalization and deprivatization"). The rally was attended by representatives of the "Other Russia" in led by Eduard Limonov. Only a few dozen took part in the rally. Human.

In August, the nationalists were traditionally active in carrying out various raids. On August 5, activists of the association "Russian St. Petersburg" walked through the trade points in the metro areas "Prospekt Bolshevikov" and "Prospect Prosveshcheniya" accompanied by police officers and CPE representatives. 9-10 people took part in the action, including one of the leaders of the association Dina Garin.

On August 9, Dmitry Bobrov (NSI) and a number of his supporters held “civil raid” against illegal trade in the area of ​​the metro station “Lesnaya”, "Academic", "Baltic", "Narva". About 5 people participated in the action.

In August, we know of one act of vandalism. On Lakhtinskaya street in St. Petersburg 26 vandals knocked down the figure of a demon from the building, built in 1910-1911 and recognized as an architectural monument. This happened two days after the installation of the cross on the Orthodox church under construction against. An anonymous organization claimed responsibility for the incident. Petersburg Cossacks.

Since the beginning of the year, we have recorded attacks by motivated xenophobic vandals against at least 23 sites in 16 regions of the country.

In August 2015, only one sentence was handed down for xenophobic violence - in St. Petersburg, 35-year-old Alexei Nesmachny for execution in Kronstadt from a sawn-off shotgun of two migrants was sentenced to 16 years in a correctional colony strict regime. In total, since the beginning of the year, at least 15 such sentences against 29 people in 13 regions of the country.

In August 2015, one conviction was handed down for xenophobic vandalism. Krasnoyarsk regional court delivered a verdict in the case of desecration of monuments of military glory on January 9, 2015 year in the park "Guards". Three local residents were found guilty of Part 3 Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (desecration of the symbols of military glory of Russia, committed publicly) and Part 5 of Art. 33, part 3 of Art. 354.1 of the Criminal Code (complicity in the desecration symbols of Russia's military glory) and sentenced to compulsory labor for a term of 60 to 110 hours. And this is the first sentence known to us under Article 354.1. Total since early 2015, we are aware of six convictions for xenophobic vandalism in against seven people in five regions of the country.

For xenophobic propaganda in August 2015 was at least 12 sentences were passed against 14 people in 9 regions of the country. Total in In 2015, there were 111 convictions in cases of racist propaganda in 48 regions of the country, where 118 people were convicted.

During the past month, the Federal List extremist materials was updated 10 times, it included paragraphs. 2929-3011. Xenophobic materials of various kinds have been added to the list, including materials of Nazi skinheads, website of the Vladimir branch of the RONS (Russian national Union), materials of various neo-pagans (“The Cathedral of Rus' of the Glorious Clans”), websites Jehovah's Witnesses, Muslim materials of various kinds from videos militants to the materials of Hizb ut-Tahrir, articles by Boris Stomakhin.

It seems that the authorities themselves are already confused in they created a complex system of lists of banned everything. In August under number 2980, a number of programs created by scammers to hack into bank accounts, and under the number 2989 - a number of sites that trade diplomas, The dissemination of this kind of information, of course, is illegal, but it has nothing to do with extremism, these resources should were included in the Register of prohibited sites maintained by Roskomnadzor, and not on the Federal List of Extremist Materials administered by Ministry of Justice.

Federal list of extremist organizations in August was not updated. However, its replenishment is inevitable. In August, the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court recognized interregional national-radical association "Misanthropic division" extremist.

The Moscow Prosecutor's Office appealed to the Moscow City Court with a statement on the recognition of the ethno-political association "Russians" as extremist. Activity organization is suspended until the court considers the application for a ban. Similarly, the activities of NSI D. Bobrov were suspended due to earlier put forward a demand to ban this organization.