Racism and xenophobia. Results of August 2018

In August 2018 we known about four victims in St. Petersburg from a motivated hate attacks. Since the beginning of the year, racist and far-right ideological motivated attacks 3 people were killed and at least 22 were injured or were beaten in 6 regions of the country.

From public shares nationalists worth noting a series single pickets in support of the defendants in the New Greatness case, which far-right movement "Right Bloc" held at VDNKh in Moscow.

In addition, on August 15-16, the far-right Association Committee "Nation and Freedom" (KNS) held actions in several cities on the anniversary of the Tambov uprising.

SOVA Center became aware of three attacks in August on cemeteries and places of worship in the Smolensk and Leningrad regions, Republic of Karelia. Since the beginning of the year, we have recorded at least 11 attacks. on religious buildings and objects in 10 regions of the country.

In August 2018 was one conviction for ideologically motivated violence. August 1, 2018 year in Elista, six members of the Bugor group were convicted for a mass brawl, resulting in the death of a young man. Since the beginning of the year, at least 10 such sentences against 45 people in 9 regions of the country.

entered into force, in absentia in Moscow in March 2018 sentencing to a well-known Russian nationalist Roman (Zukhel) Zheleznov for participation in the Ukrainian battalion "Azov" as a mercenary. According to the investigation, Zheleznov in the spring of 2014 arrived in Ukraine and voluntarily joined the Ukrainian Azov Battalion. WITH 2014 to 2016 Zheleznov, he participated in the fighting in the southeast Ukraine against the DPR. The court sentenced Zheleznov in absentia to 4 years in prison with serving in a strict regime colony. The nationalist appealed the verdict. In August 2018, the Moscow City Court decided to leave the complaint without satisfaction, but the verdict remains unchanged.

For xenophobic statements in August 2018, at least 15 sentences were handed down against 15 people in 15 regions of the country. Only in six cases can we say something about materials that have attracted the attention of law enforcement agencies. In three cases speech was about xenophobic publications with calls for violence directed against Jews, natives of the Caucasus and Middle Asia. In one case, it was about the publication of ISIS videos. In the case of the leader of the Stavropol ultra-right cell "Russian National Unity" (RNE) and the ideologist of the neo-pagan religious group "Children of Perun" Vladimir Dyachenko had dictaphone recordings of conversations in which he told how he killed "non-Slavs", striking with rebar on the head and cutting them throat. Volya party activist Elena Lobacheva was convicted of distributing leaflets on the streets of Troitsk "Appeal to the Russian Army", which was twice recognized as extremist.

Total in 2018 by cases of extremist speech received 135 convictions in 55 regions country, 140 people were convicted in these cases. (We provide data without taking into account sentences, which we consider clearly unlawful).

Over the past month, the Federal List of Extremist Materials was updated twice, paragraphs were included. 4490-4503. Far-right songs were added to the list with calls for attacks and deportation of natives of the Caucasus, Central Asia and blacks, Muslim videos calling for jihad, materials Turkish theologian Said Nursi, books of Jehovah's Witnesses.

To the federal list extremist organizations in August, four new items were added. The list includes two football "firms" - Association of football fans "Sector 16" Bugulma district of the Republic of Tatarstan ("S-16", "BugulmaUltras"), recognized as extremist by the decision of the Bugulma City Court of the Republic of Tatarstan on May 28, 2018, and the Tula fan group recognized as extremist by the Proletarsky District Court Tula on June 14, 2018 and somewhat incomprehensibly indicated in the list as "organization football fans "Firma" football fans "Generation".

In addition, the list included the Regional public foundation for the promotion of national self-determination of the peoples of the world "Independence", recognized as an extremist decision Moscow City Court December 1 2017. The foundation was founded by members of the active, and until the 2000s, far-right National Power Party of Russia (NDPR).

Finally, in the list was added the religious group "In honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Derzhavnaya", recognized as extremist by the Tula Regional Court on July 25, 2016 of the year. This religious group includes themselves about who died in November 2010 70 followers of Vasily Novikov (Vasily's father), , served in the village of Ivankovo ​​Kimovsky district of the Tula region. Some of his sermons disk "Orthodoxy or death", were recognized as extremist. Thus, there are 69 items in the list (but item 62 includes about 400 organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses; beyond that, 27 organizations recognized as terrorist).

The number of known to us administrative verdicts on extremist articles in August are as follows: 16 people were fined under Article 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (production and distribution prohibited materials) for posting xenophobic songs on social networks popular among neo-Nazis, the Kolovrat group, videos calling for forced deportation of migrants, songs of an armed Chechen bard resistance of Timur Mutsuraev. 15 people were punished under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda and public display of Nazi symbols and symbols banned organizations) for publishing images of the swastika and other symbols of the Third Reich in social network "VKontakte" and demonstration tattoos with Nazi symbols.