Activists from Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia and Poland came to the
embassy of Russian Federation in Copenhagen, to put flowers and light
candles to the pictures of a killed Russian antifascists.
In the last few years in Russia due to the connivance of authorities,
the level of aggression of neo-nazis has sharply increased. Their
victims are gastarbeiters from the countries of the former U.S.S.R. and
Far East, as well as social activists.
The only opposition to neo-nazis are antifascists.
Against anti-fascists and other dissidents repressions are used. Using
a concept «extremism» authorities try to criminalize antifascists and
lay them to creation of informal youth movements, carrying on criminal
activity.
Pro-govrnement political parties, for example «Young Russia», cover
neo-nazi organizations such as «Russkiy Obraz», the members of which are
Nikita Tikhonov and Eugenia Khasis, accused in murder of antifascists -
lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasiya Baburova. As well
Nikita Tikhonov passed in business about murder of Alexandr Ryukhin in
2006 year.
Here is list of the victims of neo-nazi terror in the last few years
among anti-fascists and social activists:
Nikolay Girenko (Sankt-Petersburg, 2004)
Timur Kacharava (Sankt-Petersburg, 2005)
Alexander Ryukhin (Moscow, 2006)
Stanislav Korepanov (Izhevsk, 2007)
Ilya Borodaenko (Nakhodka, killed in Angarsk in 2007)
Alexey Krylov (Moscow, 2008)
Fedor Filatov (Moscow, 2008)
Stanislav Markelov (Moscow, 2009)
Anastasiya Baburova (Moscow, 2009)
Ilya Dzhaparidze (Moscow, 2009)
Ivan Khutorskoy (Moscow, 2009)
The participants of action consider that Russian authorities, using an
antifascist rhetoric, clame to «Great Patriotic war» and reprobating the
transfer of monument of «Soviet warrior» in Estonia, at the same time
close eyes on the problem of neo-nazism in Russia, and at times and
stimulate him.
