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On May 14 2006, more then 150 representatives of different NGOs, youth associations, democratic political parties, independent antifascist groups, ethnic associations, experts, journalists and cultural figures took part in an antifascist conference in Moscow.
The conference has adopted the Program of Action (available in Russian), which will become a basis for forming the Antifascist Front.
Traditionally, April in Russia is associated with outbursts of racist violence. Contributing factors include Adolph Hitler's anniversary in April that Russian skinheads always try to mark by racist attacks, and simply the fact that it is usually warmer and Nazi-oriented teens spend more time outside.
This week marked the end of two high-profile trials, both involving violent racist crimes. Once again, they emphasized the importance of correct legal qualification of racist offences.
During one week two ultranationalists were arrested partly because of their activity on the Net.
And now we see some kind of panic on many ultranationalists' web-sites and forums. Some of them are closed, some other clean themselves from "dangerous" materials.
The end of 2005 was marked by two convictions in high-profile skinhead gang cases in St. Petersburg. Following the murder, in 2004, of Nikolai Girenko - an academic known for his opposition to neo-Nazi - and threats against Governor Valentina Matviyenko, the city's law enforcement voiced their commitment to investigate crimes by neo-Nazi skinhead gangs.
Elections to the Moscow City Duma and additional elections to the RF State Duma which took place in Moscow on 4 December 2005 were accompanied by active and extremely aggressive ethno-nationalist, and at times explicitly racist, campaigning. As a consequence, in early December, Moscow saw an outburst of racist violence. Within three days, on 3-5 December, two massive fights and three individual attacks involving neo-Nazi youth gangs were reported, in which two people were killed, two more were hospitalized, and the overall number of victims may be more than ten.
On 21 November 2005, a "restorative" congress of the Union of Russian People was held in Moscow. The Union declared itself the successor of an organization which existed in the early 20th century under the same name, but was widely known as The Black Hundred. The new organization elected the Chairman, sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov, a man of openly ethno-nationalistic views.
