On February 18, 2008, Yuri Semin, the prosecutor of Moscow, said in an interview that in early 2008 a group of Nazi skinheads had been sentenced in the case of Dubrovin, Yunusov, Belin and others. Note that Y. Semin mentions this case as the case of a large group of Nazi skinheads. Recall that this trial has already been reported . It is known that the defendants M. Yunusov and P.

Publications are listed in reverse chronological order: Whom should the law protect: a person or beliefs? A. Verkhovsky's commentary on the adoption by the UN Third Committee of a draft resolution on the prevention of acts of hatred, discrimination, intimidation and physical pressure arising from insulting religions // Daily Journal. 2008. November 27. Express service A. Verkhovsky's comment on the opening of prayer rooms in honor of St.

On February 4, 2008, 24-year-old Maxim Nikitin was killed in the Kirovsky district of Yekaterinburg at the intersection of 61 Komsomolskaya Street and Malysheva Street. Several people, resembling Nazi skinheads, attacked Maxim and his friend at the Kupets store. Maxim was caught up and hit several times in the back with sharpeners. The second young man managed to escape. Despite the theft of the mobile, the mother of the deceased insists on the version of the neo-Nazis.

On March 2, 2008, elections of deputies of the municipal assemblies of Moscow will be held in Moscow. Far-right activists have repeatedly declared their readiness to take part in these elections. However, with rare exceptions, personal candidate ambitions were not expressed. We have reviewed the lists of candidates for deputies of municipal assemblies and present to our readers the result of only the most superficial analysis.

On February 18, the congress of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia opened, at which the course “Spiritual and Moral Culture” proposed by the Russian Orthodox Church was discussed. The resolution adopted at this congress stated that the Federation considers teaching the fundamentals of each religion separately in schools undesirable.

On February 18, 2008, the body of a 30-year-old native of Tajikistan, S. Boboev, was found in Moscow on Dmitrovskoye Highway. The man died from multiple stab wounds. At the scene of the murder, the criminals left four knives and a baseball bat. Whether the victim was robbed is not reported. We do not know under which article a criminal case was initiated and whether the version of the murder motivated by ethnic hatred is being considered.

On February 15, at an off-site meeting of the Council of Muftis of Russia, Aleksey Grishin, adviser to the internal policy department of the presidential administration of Russia, said that in 2007, 800 million rubles were allocated in Russia for the development of Islam with the participation of the state. Grishin noted that the state cooperates with Islamic organizations in a number of areas, the main of which is the support of Islamic education in the country.

On the evening of February 17, 2008 in Moscow, in the Tushino district, near house 81 on Svoboda Street, the body of a 34-year-old native of the city of Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, O. Kirimov, was discovered. The man died as a result of multiple stab wounds to the back and head. According to experts, death occurred two hours before the body was discovered. Despite the fact that the murdered man had a large sum of money, neither it nor any other things were stolen.

On February 15, the Council of Muftis of Russia sent a complaint to President Vladimir Putin and the government of the Russian Federation against a court decision to recognize 16 Islamic books as extremist, on the basis of which they were included by Rosregistration in the Federal List of Extremist Materials . The appeal states that the ban on religious literature could be seen as a revival of censorship and ideological control.

On February 18, 2008, the editor-in-chief and executive secretary of the newspaper "For a person", published by the Perm regional human rights center, were summoned to the prosecutor's office of the Perm Territory to give explanations as part of a check on Igor Averkiev's article "Putin is our good Hitler." The reason was a warning from the regional administration of Rossvyazokhrankultura issued to the newspaper on February 12.

At the end of 2007, statements appeared on far-right Internet resources in which, on behalf of the "comrades-in-arms" of the group of Nikolai Korolev, accused of the explosion at the Cherkizovsky market in August 2006, responsibility is taken for a series of incidents that occurred in Moscow before the start of the trial of the "Cherkizovsky demolitionists." On December 10, they claimed responsibility for the explosion of a cafe near the Cherkizovsky market, which was owned by natives of

On February 15, 2008, in the south-east of Moscow, on Krasnodarskaya Street, a group of 8 drunken teenagers attacked Muslim Karamov, a citizen of Tajikistan, born in 1985. Karamov received more than 10 stab wounds to the chest, but was able to get to his apartment. His relatives called an ambulance, and now he is in serious condition in the intensive care unit of the Institute. Sklifosofsky. No robbery reported. There are witnesses to the attack ready to testify.

In February 2008, the Federal Court of the Zavodskoy District reopened the case of pensioner Pyotr Gagarin, who in December 2007 was sentenced by a world court to a fine of 10,000 rubles for insulting Governor Stroev at a CPRF rally. A new trial of the case is underway on Gagarin's appeal. In the first trial, Gagarin was also accused of inciting extremist activities, but this charge was dropped from him.

On February 15, 2008, at the board meeting on the results of work for 2007, the representative of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, Valery Spasenykh, said that 16 violent crimes motivated by ethnic hatred had occurred in Moscow since the beginning of the year. V. Spasennykh emphasized that all these crimes "are committed by groups of teenagers who gather for so-called "actions"" with the use of edged weapons.

On the evening of February 17, 2008, in a fixed-route taxi near the Dinamo Sports Palace stop, two (according to other sources, three) neo-Nazis attacked foreign passengers - three citizens of India and a citizen of Kenya, beat them and disappeared. The incident occurred when the injured foreign students of the Voronezh State Medical Academy were returning home from a store.