Racism and xenophobia. Results of March 2016

IN In March 2016, we are aware of three victims in one attack in St. Petersburg. Since the beginning of the year, at least 7 people have suffered from xenophobic violence in Moscow, Petersburg, Moscow and Vladimir regions, two more people received serious death threats.

In March we known about four acts of xenophobic-motivated vandalism in four regions of the country. Since the beginning of the year, at least 11 xenophobic actions have taken place. vandals in ten regions of Russia.

Not went unnoticed by the ultra-right the story of the tragic murder of a 5-year-old girls a citizen of Uzbekistan Gulchekhroy Bobokulova, who worked as a nanny in the family. Recall babysitter cut off girl's head and, dressed in all black, came to the subway, where, waving severed head of a child, shouted "Allah Akbar" and threatened to make an explosion. Almost without exception, far-right groups on their resources covered this terrible incident, emphasizing the ethnic and religious affiliation of the killer, accused the police of bad work, and the Russian official political discourse is ignoring its own "problems with migrants" while paying close attention to the situation with migrants in Europe. Most organizations have again issued statements demanding introduction of a visa regime with the countries of Central Asia. One of the most aggressive anti-migrant campaigns was carried out by Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party. The department put forward a demand to introduce a lifetime ban on entry into Russia to foreigners who have committed a criminal crime in the Russian Federation; introduce a visa regime with the countries of Central Asia; expel from the countries of all non-citizens detained with weapons; ban Wahhabism. stylized images of a woman in Muslim clothing with a severed head in her hands, used on the poster of the Communist Party, has become one of the most replicated xenophobic symbols that appeared after the tragedy and were widely distributed as far-right sites, as well as outside the far-right segment of the Russian Internet.

In addition, the nationalists took part in a spontaneous action in memory of the murdered girl who took place on March 1 in Moscow near the Oktyabrskoye metro station field". The overwhelming majority of those gathered limited themselves to laying flowers and did not displayed any kind of symbolism. Only a few young people came with ribbons and scarves in the colors of the "imperial flag" and demanded "tighten the rules for migrants in Russia." At the meeting was seen Dmitry Demushkin and two young men who told the media that they were from National Democratic Party (NDP).

In general, public the activities of the ultra-right were hardly noticeable in March.

On March 12, actions were held in support of Kvachkov. They took place in several cities, but nowhere did they numerous. In Moscow, a rally was held near the 1905 Goda metro station, which was organized by "People's Militia of Russia" (ex-NOMP), "Great Russia" and Russian imperial movement (RID). In St. Petersburg, the action was carried out by RID and Russian National Front, several single pickets were held in the city. were held in Volgograd, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod and Syktyvkar.

On March 26, actions "For the visa regime" were held, organized by the NDP. IN Petersburg, the action took place on the Field of Mars. It was attended by no more than 20 a person from the NDP, RID and Rodina. NDP rally in Pervomaisky Square in Novosibirsk brought together no more than 10 people. In Moscow, the action could not be agreed upon.

For March we three convictions against five people for racist violence are known, in St. Petersburg, Kirov and Tver region. The most notable of these was the verdict in Petersburg on March 17 to a member of the neo-Nazi Borovikov-Voevodin gang to Andrey Malyugin. He was sentenced to 18 years in a strict regime colony. Recall that in June 2011, in the process of in the case of the Borovikov-Voevodin group, the jury acquitted Malyugin, but after for several months, the nationalist was detained on suspicion of committing two killings after release.

Total since At the beginning of the year, there were 6 convictions for violent crimes, in which the hate motive was recognized by the courts in 6 regions of the country. These processes were 11 people were convicted.

Behind xenophobic propaganda in March, 14 sentences were handed down against 14 people in 13 regions of the country. Among those punished for propaganda in March was Dina Garina, the leader of the ultra-right movement "Russian St. Petersburg", who on March 3 The Kirov Court of St. Petersburg sentenced him to a suspended sentence for a post on a social network.

Total since at the beginning of the year for racist and other far-right propaganda, at least 36 verdicts in which 37 people were convicted in 27 regions of the country.

Federal list of extremist materials for the month updated four times (March 1, 11, 18 and 23). Items 3308 - 3362 were included in it. The list was supplemented by xenophobic materials of various kinds (regular Nazi skinhead videos from social networks, songs of groups "Okolorep" and "Justified Terrorism", B. Mironov's books "Yoke Jewish", etc.); Muslim materials of various kinds (videos militants, brochures "Woman in Islam and in the Judeo-Christian world (between myths and reality)" and "Signs of a non-believer (mushrik)", etc.); extremely radical anti-Russian publications from Ukraine.