Racism and xenophobia. Results of January 2018

At least three people were injured in neo-Nazi attacks in January 2018 in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the Moscow region, one of them died .

National radicals took part in the all-Russian action "in support of voters' strike", organized by Alexei Navalny. January 28 in Moscow on Pushkin Square, observers of the SOVA center saw representatives of the Party nationalists, the Youth Association of Nationalists (MON) (youth movement wing of the PN), the Black Bloc, the National Revolutionary Vanguard (NRA), the Popular Resistance Association (ANS). About an hour after the start of the event, a group of several people with black and green flag, the flag of the NRA and the flag with the Celtic cross, pushing other participants, went to the monument to Pushkin and shouted "National Socialism!" Then the activists climbed onto the lantern and turned their flags there. Black Bloc activists claimed to have been involved in guards and "tried to discourage" Alexei Navalny from detention. They also lit fireworks on Tverskaya-Yamskaya street. Young people from the NRA and the ANC chanted " One move, resistance! " "and" Elections boycott! ". Supporters The ANS marched along Tverskaya Street, shouting slogans. MON activists on Pushkinskaya Square chanted slogans through a megaphone and brandishing Putin's rubber mask with "THIEF" written on their foreheads. About 15 young people were standing near Pushkin Square with a banner "Party nationalists." Also on January 28, supporters of the Committee came to Tverskaya Street "Nation and Liberty".

In addition to Moscow, the nationalists participated in actions dedicated to the boycott of the elections in other cities. In Astrakhan , Igor Stenin received participation in single pickets in support of the action. in Vologda The leader spoke at the rally movement "Russian Vologda" Vladimir Guzhev. In Novgorod, activists of the local "Party of Nationalists" took part in the action. After the event, the head of the department Elena Grigorieva and 4 activists were detained. The court arrested Grigorieva for 3 days. In Pskov, supporters of the Pskov People's republics” held a series of single pickets. ANS activists reported that their associates took an active part in the actions in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Vladivostok, Cheboksary, Tula, Orel and Krasnodar , but there is no evidence for this.

In January 2018, at least 11 sentences in 10 regions of the country. In these trials, 11 people were convicted. Other there were no convictions for "crimes of an extremist nature".

The Ministry of Justice has changed the procedure for informing about updating the Federal List of Extremist Materials. Now the website of the Ministry of Justice not only adds to the list, but there are dated news about updates. Indeed, they appear delay. Let's say new items in the list appeared on January 10, but in the news an update was reported on 29 December. 19 January 2018, paragraphs were added to the list. 4346 - 4349, the website of the Ministry of Justice reported this on January 25. The list includes a xenophobic brochure about Chechens, another version of the Protocols Elders of Zion”, a xenophobic image from the social network. In addition, under item 4349 the statement "Russia - Russian power" was added, recognized extremist Nagatinskiy District Court of Moscow. The paragraph does not specify which it was the material that became its source, but it can be assumed that we are talking about photograph of a banner with a similar inscription, for the publication of which in the social network "VKontakte" by the same Nagatinsky court was convicted . Dmitry Dyomushkin

On January 19, 2018, the annual All-Russian action in memory of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova. Events were held in 5 cities, but remained almost unnoticed and nowhere did not become numerous. In Moscow, according to the observers of the Sova Center, in the action was attended by 450-480 people, which is slightly more than it was in the year previously.