Russian nationalists, communists and religious believers gathered in Moscow on Saturday to denounce plans for a Gay Pride march, as gay activists prepared to lobby the mayor to lift a ban on the event.
Popularity: 9% [?]
May 26, 2007
Headed by military drummers and the tricolor national flag, the red Victory flag and the Flag of Armed Forces with hammer and sickle, Russian troops on Wednesday held an annual military parade on the Red Square to mark victory in World War II.
Popularity: 6% [?]
May 9, 2007
A court in South Russian Kuban Region has liquidated a Christian religious group that used swastika and Nazi salute as part of the cult.
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April 10, 2007
An ethnic Armenian man was killed in Samara, Russia by someone who painted a racist slogan on the victim’s television set, according to a March 30, 2007 report by Sova Information-Analytical Center, quoted by Armenian News Network.
Popularity: 5% [?]
April 5, 2007
Museum authorities at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp have closed a Russian exhibition after Moscow changed it to describe eastern European citizens as Soviet, the AFP news agency reported April 4.
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April 4, 2007
A teenage Russian immigrant arrested in U.S. on Monday said he was the leader of the local skinhead group and that the arrest had been made to prevent him from making a public speech, Thestarpress web-site reports.
Popularity: 3% [?]
March 14, 2007
A mass brawl in which three allegedly suffered was reported to have taken place in a commuter train outside Moscow, the Interfax news agency reports.
Popularity: 4% [?]
March 12, 2007
Russian court sentenced a Moscow University law student to 150 hours of community service for sending an anti-Semitic SMS message to a live television program dedicated to Victory in Europe day, RIA Novosti news agency reported March 6.
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March 6, 2007
Neo-nazis scrawled swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans on the walls of the main synagogue in the Russian city of Vladivostok on Friday.
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March 2, 2007
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Vietnam has urged Russia to continue hunting for those involved in the brutal murder of a Vietnamese student in St. Petersburg in 2004 after the Supreme Court recently acquitted all 17 charged in the case.
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