Racism and xenophobia. Results of May 2017

The SOVA Center has no information about the victims in May 2017 from racist and neo-Nazi motivated attacks. Total, by preliminary data, for the first five months of 2017 in 9 regions of Russia 3 people died and at least 13 people were injured.

But in May we recorded at least 11 acts vandalism, which could be regarded as motivated by hatred - in 8 regions of the country. Since the beginning of the year, there have been at least 25 actions of ideological vandals in 19 regions.

Traditionally, the most notable event in May for Russian nationalists was "Russian May Day", but it was even more modest than a year earlier. In Moscow - a procession from the Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station to the Shchukinskaya metro station , which was held on May 1 The Nationalist Party, according to the estimates of the observers of the SOVA Center, did not more than 150 people. In demonstration Moscow federation of trade unions was attended by NOD activists in the amount of not more than 30 people. Zamorenova street (Krasnopresnenskaya metro station) to Krasnopresnenskaya Zastava Square (Ulitsa 1905 Goda metro station) a small procession of the Moscow branch of the "Other Russia" led by Edward Limonov. In addition to Moscow, May Day actions were also held in St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Kostroma and Pskov.

In addition, some nationalist groups participated in wider opposition and public actions. May 6 in Moscow on Sakharov Avenue several far-right groups took part in the action "Against political repression." May 14 and 28 representatives RONA movements, supporters of the Nationalist Party and some other groups participated in rallies against the law on "renovation".

On the right-wing Internet is still threats continue to appear against people working on cases of initiating hate: Dmitry "Schultz" Bobrov re-published and distributed on the pages of ultra-right activists and groups of St. Petersburg name, photo and place of work of one of the employees St. Petersburg State University. According to Bobrov, such specialists “substantiate political repression."

In addition, new videos were published with scenes of racist violence. A small autonomous group of far-right "Committee vigilance” filmed and published a video with a series of attacks on immigrants.

In May, we do not know the sentences for racist violence. However, it is worth noting the verdict , which was handed down on May 30 in Petersburg for the murder of journalist Dmitry Tsilikin. Sergey Kosyrev was sentenced to 8.6 years in prison. Law enforcement he was charged with murder on domestic grounds (part 1 of article 105 of the Criminal Code), the motive of hatred was not taken into account, although Kosyrev called himself a "cleaner", his life - a "cross campaign against a certain social group” (referring to LGBT), but the feeling, with with which he killed Tsilikin, “not with hostility, as it is written in the protocol, but hatred."

Since the beginning of the year, at least 3 convictions for racist violence with a hate motive against 5 people in 3 regions of the country.

For xenophobic statements in May 2017 was at least 22 sentences were handed down in 18 regions. They were convicted of 22 person. Noteworthy is the verdict against the leader of the Parabellum movement and an activist of the People's Militia of Russia Yuri Ekishev, who received 1.5 years in prison for publishing two anti-Semitic articles.

Since the beginning of the year for racist and other ultra-right propaganda received at least 76 sentences, in which 78 people were convicted in 45 regions of the country.

In May, the Federal List of Extremist materials was replenished twice (May 19 and 26) - paragraphs. 4095-4151. The list was supplemented by materials from Muslim militants and radical nationalists from social networks, a book with anti-Semitic statements of the former plenipotentiary President on Sakhalin Vitaly Guliy.

To the Federal List of Extremist Organizations in May the far-right organization "Frontier of the North" was added, recognized extremist decision of the Syktyvkar City Court of the Komi Republic on 11/23/2016 of the year. This list now includes 60 organizations (not counting the 26 organizations recognized as terrorist), whose activities are prohibited by court order and its continuation is punishable under Art. 282.2 of the Criminal Code.