Сегодня Славянскому Союзу исполнилось девять лет. Мои поздравления всем соратникам.

Russian march on November, 4th, 2008

Как стало известно сегодня во дворе своего дома на лидера СС Дмитрия Дёмушкина совершено нападение неизвестными лицами. Один из нападавших задержан. Подробности выясняются.

RUSSIA, Moscow. According to the report named “Spring 2006: skin-heads movement and its PR” presented by the analytical center “SOVA” (an Owl) during the spring of 2006 the racists in Russia attacked 87 people, 14 of those attacked lost their life. In 2005 those figures were 122 and 5, respectively. The report says that although the number of crimes motivated by race and nationalistic enmity has somewhat decreased in 2006 those crimes committed in 2006 were of a more demonstrative character.

The authors of “Spring 2006: skin-heads movement and its PR” report are making a separate notation of the assaults, perpetrated by the skin heads against gays in Moscow during May 27-28. During those days at least 50 people were assaulted.

When talking about almost three fold increase in racially related murders the “SOVA” center staffers are reminding about an attempt on life of a nine year old dark skinned girl – a Russian citizen and the murder of a Senegalese student Samba Lampsara, both committed in St-Petersburg; the murders of an Armenian teenager Vigen Abramiants and punk-antifascist Alexander Ruhin those ones perpetrated in Moscow.


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MOSCOW — Artur Ryno had a knife and was looking to kill foreigners. He slipped into the space between two buildings near downtown Moscow and walked toward a janitor who was standing alone in the night air in April 2007. By the time the frenzy of hacks and thrusts was over, Khairullo Sadykov, a Tajik, lay crumpled on the ground with dozens of stab wounds.

About three hours later, Ryno encountered Karin Abramyan, an Armenian businessman, and pulled out his knife. Abramyan's body later was found with knife wounds to the head, stomach and chest.

Human rights groups say that Ryno, who was 17 when he was arrested, is just one of an untold number of thugs who've hunted migrant laborers and immigrants on the streets of Russia.

In the first six months of this year, 69 people were killed in ethnic and racially motivated attacks across Russia, just below the 74 recorded for all of last year, according to the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights. Another organization that tracks the killings, the Sova Center, counts 59 killed for the first half of 2008, well above 2007, when it counted 83 murders for the whole year.

Because Russian security forces don't release comprehensive statistics on the attacks, there's no standardized method of tracking the violence, which usually targets darker-skinned migrants from former Soviet republics in Central Asia and the Caucasus region. Human rights groups rely in large part on reports from the field and news accounts.





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