October 2010. Monthly Summary
In October 2010, one was dead and at least
16 people were injured in racist and neo-Nazi attacks (in October 2009, 4
people were dead and 28 injured). In all, from the beginning of 2010, 26 people
in Russia
were dead and at least 276 injured in such attacks.
September 2010. Monthly Summary
In September 2010, one was dead and at least 14 people were injured in
racist and neo-Nazi attacks (in September 2009, 9 people were dead and 36
injured). In all, from the beginning of 2010, 23 people in Russia were
dead and at least 241 injured in such attacks.
July 2010. Monthly Summary
In July
2010, at least 8 people became victims of racist and neo-Nazi attacks, namely
in Moscow and the region, in Vladivostok,
Voronezh, Kaluga
region, and Perm. In July 2009, one person was dead and 12 injured.
June 2010. Monthly Summary
In June
2010, a sharp decline of racist and neo-Nazi attacks was registered. A
young girl
from Yakutia became a victim of an attack in Moscow, a Krishnaite was
beaten in
Yaroslavl region and a female Jehovah’s Witnesses member in
Yekaterinburg. In the
same period of 2009, two people were killed and 29 wounded. Due to the
natural delay
of data collection, the current information on 2010 do not reflect the
real
situation. We now become aware of most of incidents at least one or two
months late.
Voice of Beslan Appeal Found Extremist
On April 22, 2010, it became known that the appeal "To all who sympathize with the victims of Beslan terrorist attack' by Voice of Beslan was after all blacklisted as extremist. Voice of Beslan is a grassroots non-governmental organization appeared in the aftermath of the 2004 North Ossetian Beslan school hostage crisis. It comprises a part of the Mothers of Beslan support and advocacy group of relatives of the victims.
Antifascist from Rostov-on-Don receives a warning about extremism
The prosecutor's office in Rostov-on-Don issued a warning about extremist activity to Konstantin Baranov, the author of the report on xenophobia and discrimination in the region ("Xenophobia and Discrimination in the Rostov Region in 2008. A Report on the Results of Human Rights Monitoring'). The warning has been received on February19th though it is dated February 9th.
The Amount of Extremist Materials Has Decreased
In the end of November 2009, the Russian Ministry of Justice has revised the Federal List of Extremist Materials. As a result, one of the items was removed from the list for the first time in more than two years of the list's history. Item 413, a leaflet against Krishnaists that was spread in Khabarovsk by the members of the pro-Kremlin Young Guard of United Russia (YGUR) party, is no longer extremist.
A New Book of the SOVA Center
In July, 2009, the SOVA Center for Information and Analysis issued a new book in English under the title Xenophobia, Freedom of Conscience and Anti-Extremism in Russia in 2008: A collection of annual reports by the SOVA Center for Information and Analysis; [Verkhovsky Alexander, Kozhevnikova Galina, Sibireva Olga; translation - I. Savelieva, S. Rock] - М.: SOVA Center, 2009. - 140 pp.: tables (Academic publication).
