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.
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May 9, 2007A 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, 2007Museum 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, 2007Neo-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
Members of a Hasidic Jewish movement may sue the Russian government in an effort to recover 18th-century religious writings and prayers seized by the Nazi and Soviet armies, the Associated Press reports.
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December 6, 2006Police in Moscow on Saturday arrested more than 200 suspected rightwing extremists demonstrating against immigration by non-Russians.
Despite the arrests, around 2,000 people gathered for a demonstration lead in the Russian capital called by ultranationalist parties in honour of Russia’s newly created Day of National Unity.
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November 7, 2006According to the official statement of The Russian Anti-Fascist Front, a rally against fascism will be held in Moscow on the National Unity Day.
The meeting is sanctioned officially and will gather 2,000 members of the organization, uniting the SPS and Yabloko parties. It should be noticed that none of the nationalists attempts to get a permission for the march on November 4 had any success.
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November 2, 2006Vladimir Putin on Wednesday severely criticised Karelia’s head Sergei Katanandov for having gone on a vacation before a new administration was formed in Kondopoga, a scene of recent ethnic clashes, Itar-Tass news agency reports
Putin expressed hope that Katanandov will learn his lessons for the future.
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About 300 people marched Sunday in Russia’s second largest city St. Petersburg to protest the rising tide of xenophobic attacks there and in other major cities, news reports said.
The participants, from liberal and leftist opposition groups and rights organizations, carried portraits of an expert on skinheads, Nikolai Girenko, who was killed in St. Petersburg in June 2004, The Associated Press reported.
Russian state television showed people on the march — which was guarded by police — holding red flags and banners with the slogan: “March against hatred.â€
Some also had portraits of Anna Politkovskaya, the investigative journalist who exposed torture, abductions and other abuses against civilians in Chechnya and was shot dead in an apparent contract killing earlier this month, Ekho Moksvy radio reported.
This is the third year the event has taken place in memory of Girenko, who was killed in what many believe was retaliation for his studies of neo-Nazi and racist groups.
Human rights groups say that the authorities are turning a blind eye to the growing wave of xenophobia and racially motivated attacks in Russia that target dark-skinned foreigners and immigrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus.
This year, 39 people have been killed in apparent hate crimes and a further 308 attacked, according to the Sova rights center which monitors xenophobia. St. Petersburg has seen a wave of racially motivated murders, leading some to dub it “Europe’s racist capital.â€
Russian human rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin, who attended the rally, called on the government to do more to halt the growth of xenophobia.
“The crimes taking place in this city are particularly horrible. We have gathered in order to call on the authorities to put up a wall in the way of those lost minds, who are a disgrace to the city and to the country,†he was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.
Next Saturday, far-right groups plan to repeat last year’s ultranationalist march in which thousands of extremists shouting Nazi and nationalist slogans paraded in the center of Moscow.
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October 30, 2006A Russian non-guilty verdict for all the accused of the murder of a Vietnamese student went against the evidence and public opinion in the two countries, Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry has said, the Vietnam News Agency reported.
The verdict, by which a St Petersburg court acquitted 17 young men of the 2004 killing of student Vu Anh Tuan last week, could “negatively impact the feelings between the two peoples, seen as a valuable asset,†the ministry said in a diplomatic note which was conveyed to the Russian Ambassador to Vietnam Vadim Serafimov.
The defendants were charged with gang-murdering Tuan, then a 20-year-old student at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute out of racial hatred.
An autopsy revealed Tuan suffered 37 stab wounds.
The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry expressed its “deep concern†over the murder case, asking the Russian side to take measures to quickly investigate and determine the identity of Tuan’s murderer.
Ambassador Serafimov told Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Phu Binh, who conveyed the message that the investigation into the death of Tuan was not yet over.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has sent a message to the Supreme Procuracy, the Supreme Court and the Interior Ministry informing them of Vietnam’s opinion, the Russian diplomat said.
He pledged to forward the diplomatic note to Russia immediately and ask relevant authorities to bring to court quickly the persons responsible for Tuan’s death.
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