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St Petersburg: vandals defile Jewish cemetery
On 17 December graves in the St Petersburg Jewish cemetery were defiled with swastikas and slogans such as 'Long Live the Holocaust'.
24 December 2004 (48 words)
Student dies during police deportation
A 25-year-old Cameroonian student, Clarisse Gerardine Mbango died in south Russia on 7 December following a brutal deportation attempt by the police.
22 December 2004 (100 words)
Siberian editor sentenced for anti-Semitism
The editor of Russkaya Sibir was found guilty of inciting ethnic hatred in a number of articles that contained defamatory materials on Jews and given a two-and-a-half-year suspended sentence at a Novosibirk court.
22 December 2004 (75 words)
Man killed in Moscow racist attack
A man from the Caucasus was killed and Russian citizen of Spanish origin was injured in what appeared to be racially-motivated attacks in Moscow on 19 December.
22 December 2004 (90 words)
TV presenter accused of anti-Muslim racism
A Duma deputy from the nationalist Rodina (Motherland)party has accused TV anchor man Vladimir Pozner of inciting racism.
12 December 2004 (80 words)
Bill to bar foreigners who show disrespect
Legislation which is likely to be approved by the Duma in 2005 will allow authorities to deny a visa to any foreigner who shows disrespect toward Russia.
11 December 2004 (84 words)
Gypsy girl's killers sentenced
The seven defendants, found guilty of murdering a six-year-old Tajik gypsy girl near St Petersburg on 21 September 2003, were sentenced: two to 10 years imprisonment, one to 7 years, two to 2.5 years and two minors to suspended sentences.
10 December 2004 (100 words)
Nationalist journalist convicted of anti-Semitism
Viktor Korchagin, who publishes a nationalist journal Ruich was convicted in a Moscow court of inciting ethnic hatred via a number of anti-Semitic articles.
25 November 2004 (82 words)
DNA database prepared for criminals and immigrants
The interior ministry is drafting a bill that would make it mandatory for immigrants and criminals to register with a nation-wide DNA database.
20 November 2004 (34 words)
Banned party holds anti-Semitic rally in Moscow
Hundreds of people holding up dozens of anti-Semitic placards rallied in central Moscow on 13 November to protest against the arrest warrant of nationalist leader Boris Mironov, wanted on charges of inciting inter-racial hatred.
18 November 2004 (83 words)
St Petersburg skinhead rally for extremists on trial
An unauthorised nationalist rally took place in St Petersburg near the Leninsky court where the case of the Schulz-88 was due to be heard.
24 October 2004 (96 words)
Racist attacks rise after Beslan
Racist attacks on dark-skinned people from the Caucasus and elsewhere have risen in seriousness since the Beslan school siege and the downing of two planes, allegedly in terrorist actions.
19 October 2004 (349 words)
Convictions and arrests
Voronezh court convicts racist murderers
1 October 2004 (186 words)
Muslim soldiers escape harassment
Eight Russian Muslim soldiers escaped their special forces unit based in south Moscow after being beaten by their colleagues following the Beslan school tragedy.
22 September 2004 (32 words)
Human rights and anti-racist campaigners at risk
It appears from developments over the last few months that to oppose racism and fascism and to campaign for human rights are dangerous pursuits which can bring retribution from both neo-Nazis and state authorities.
22 September 2004 (303 words)
Synagogue burned
On 27 July in Irkutsk, fire gutted a building housing a synagogue and Jewish cultural centre.
29 July 2004 (23 words)
Levels of attacks cause concern
According to a two-year study by the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, there are about 50,000 skinheads in Russia, with 1,500 in both Moscow and St Petersburg.
10 June 2004 (115 words)
Two diplomats' sons killed
Two young men, sons of diplomats, were knifed to death within weeks of one another.
10 June 2004 (97 words)
Police accused of migrant raids to boost statistics
According to a former senior Moscow police officer, Viktor Klimchuk, police officers who cannot be bothered to track down real criminals or who are being forced to meet unrealistic targets, consistently carry out checks on migrant workers, who are often without the correct papers, so as to make up their so-called solved crimes figures.
20 May 2004 (77 words)
Moscow local election: huge gains for xenophobic party
The extreme rightwing Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) won 34 per cent of the vote in the Orehovo-Borisovo South area of Moscow in supplementary elections for the municipal council held in May.
20 May 2004 (57 words)
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