In a number of interviews given in the summer of 2005, the head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Boris Boyarskov, stated that the "closeness" of the list of publications to which his department issues warnings ( including warnings, handed down for inciting ethnic hatred) is a purposeful policy of the service.

On July 1, 2005, in a speech on Radio Liberty, the head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Boris Boyarskova, described the activities of his department in issuing warnings to the media for extremist publications and materials inciting ethnic hatred.

The Skinhead Society of the Republic of Karelia under the leadership of Vadim Ilyichev plans to create an officially registered party in the near future in order to run for election authorities and defend their interests at the highest political level. While the society exists only formally, it is not officially registered anywhere. However, according to V.

On July 13, 2005, commenting on the situation with the investigation of the fire of a shopping center in Ukhta (Komi), as a result of which 24 people died, representatives of the city administration stated, in particular, that there were active ethno-nationalist groups in the city. The comment was made in connection with the existing (not the main) version of the nationalist motivation for the arson.

July 28, 2005 "Komsomolskaya Pravda in Chernozemye", publishing a report on the match of the Russian Football Championship between the teams Fakel (Voronezh) and "Dynamo" (Makhachkala), indignantly announced the racist trick of the fans of the Voronezh team. "The whole match, the fans in the stands spoke very rudely, first about the black Dynamo player Samuel Didier Biang, and then about our Kamalutdin Akhmedov ," the newspaper reports indignantly. Sources Tumanevich Nikita.

On July 19, 2005, the Sport-express newspaper published an interview with Vladimir Novitsky, President of the Russian Section of the International Society for Human Rights and co-chairman of the Foundation for the Protection of the Rights of Athletes and Sports Associations, on the problem of racist manifestations during sports competitions. In his opinion, "sports racism" is just one of the manifestations of general xenophobic sentiments in society.

On July 19, 2005, from an article by Alexander Prosvetov in the Sport-Express newspaper, it became known about a racist stunt by football fans in the Moscow metro in early July 2005. On the way to the metro station "Sportivnaya", the correspondent witnessed how teenagers on their way to a football match began to point their fingers at "a fashionably dressed and well-groomed dark-skinned woman" , shouting: "Look, a monkey!" .

July 13, 2005 at the stadium "Spring" in Klimovsk, Moscow region during a football match for the Cup of Russia (1/16 finals) between the teams "Vityaz" (Podolsk) and "Rubin" (Kazan) correspondent of the newspaper "Sport-Express" " Alexander Prosvetov witnessed a racist incident on the podium. Several fans - "decent uncles of a very respectable age" shouted (apparently, to the black player): "Niggs to Africa!" and "Hold the banana!" . A.

On July 4, 2005, by the decision of the Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow on the suit of the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage (Rosokhrakultura), the NBP newspaper Generalnaya Liniya was deregistered. On July 11, 2005, this was stated by the head of the service, Boris Boyarskov, during an Internet conference at the Garant company: "This is the first time I am reporting this.

Analyzing "hate speech" in the Russian media, we try to carefully evaluate sports reports in the context of this problem, although many observers and experts who touch on these topics in one way or another do not agree with us (see, for example, the opinions of V. Tishkov and S. .Buntman ). However, it is no secret that ethno-nationalist and even racist statements are far from uncommon for sports commentary .

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation is considering a cassation appeal filed by Dmitry Borisenko, General Director of the Murmansk Raritet LLC, in connection with the decision issued on April 19, 2005 by the Oktyabrsky District Court of Murmansk. According to the decision, D. Borisenko is accused of violating Art.