2013

The following is our monthly review of instances of xenophobia and radical nationalism, along with any government countermeasures, for August 2013. The review is based on material gathered by Sova Center in the course of our daily monitoring.

The following is our monthly review of incidences of xenophobia and radical nationalism, along with any government countermeasures, for July 2013. The review is based on material gathered by Sova Center in the course of our daily monitoring.

On July 8, 2013, about 600 people gathered at a monument to veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the Saratov region town of Pugachev for a rally against immigrants from the North Caucasus.

On June 28, 2013, the Moscow City Court approved a claim by the General Prosecutor's Office of Moscow on the barring of the Autonomous Combat Terrorist Organization (ACTO) as a terrorist one.

The following is our monthly review of incidences of xenophobia and radical nationalism, along with any government countermeasures, for June 2013. The review is based on material gathered by Sova Center in the course of our daily monitoring.

On May 9, 2013, the Mass Media reported that counterintelligence BIA arrested one of the establishers of “Russian Obraz” Ilya Goryachev (born in Moscow on May 30, 1982) in Belgrad.

On May 10, 2013, 31-year old Mikhail Volkov (Ed) was arrested by the competent authorities of Ukraine. It was previously reported that Ilya Goryachev, leader of “Russian Obraz”, was arrested in Serbia.

On June 12, the day Russia commemorates its declaration of national sovereignty in 1990, a general opposition rally in Moscow took place in the form of a march leaving from Kaluga Square, heading down Bolshaya Yakimanka Street and ending at Bolotnaya Square. Nationalist activists were in attendance. Additionally, in the south-east Moscow district of Lublino, another nationalist march 'For Legitimate Authority and Genuine Sovereignty' was held on on Pererva Street. The event, organized by Andrei Savelyev's Great Russia Party, was attended by (according to various estimates) between 100 and 300 people.

The following is our monthly review of incidences of xenophobia and radical nationalism, along with any government countermeasures, for May 2013. The review is based on material gathered by Sova Center in the course of our daily monitoring.

Far-right groups organized two May Day actions this year in Moscow, with both taking place on May 1, 2013. The first was a mass procession beginning at the Oktyabrskoe Polye Metro stop and ending at the Schukinskaya Metro stop along Marshal Biruzov Street and the Marshal Vasilievsky Street. Based on Sova’s observation, roughly 500 people attended. The action at Lublino under the name Russian Spring, which was organized by the Russian Action Coalition was, predictably, much smaller – about 150 people attended.