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Ethnic violence in Russia: A scourge flares anew<\/a>
\nRights activists fear economic downturn will fan flames against migrant workers<\/em>
\nAlex Rodriguez
\nChicago Tribune<\/em>
\nMarch 9, 2009<\/p>\n

MOSCOW \u2014 As soon as Dzhomi Kukanshoyev stepped into the Moscow subway car, three young Russian toughs in tracksuits stopped talking and swung their gazes toward him. “You’re not a Russian\u2014why are you here?” one of the men shouted at Kukanshoyev, one of legions of migrants who have left impoverished Tajikistan to make a living at Moscow construction sites. “There’s no place for you here.” In seconds, the three pounced on Kukanshoyev with a barrage of punches and kicks. The 25-year-old Tajik was lucky, escaping the October attack with a broken nose and finger. His first encounter with angry Russians in 2004 also could have turned out much worse; a group of men threw him off a Moscow bridge into a stream. “They thought I was dead,” Kukanshoyev said, “so they left me.”<\/p>\n

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Just as worrisome, experts say, is the degree to which Russia’s nationalist movement is getting larger and wealthier. Once relegated to the fringes of society, ultranationalist and skinhead<\/strong> groups today have among their ranks members with day jobs as bankers and stockbrokers. “They have huge resources at their disposal,” Kozhevnikova said. “They have their own lawyers and maintain good connections in the business and banking worlds.” The attacks have grown more brazen. In December a group of skinheads<\/strong> stabbed to death Salokhiddin Azizov, a 20-year-old Tajik produce-warehouse worker, decapitated him and left his head in a plastic bag outside a Moscow government building… (See<\/em> : [For Dion] OMG!Nationalists Claim Decapitation!LOL!<\/a>, December 13, 2008)<\/p>\n

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Neo-Nazis working towards a new Reich, authors find<\/a>
\nTony Paterson
\nNew Zealand Tribune<\/em>
\nMarch 9, 2009<\/p>\n

Germany’s main neo-Nazi party pretends to be democratic. But its members hoard weapons, plan to rebuild Hitler’s Reich and are using the economic crisis to try to make sweeping gains in this year’s elections, a new and disturbing study of the extreme right has revealed. To write their expose on the increasingly influential neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), the authors spent two years infiltrating Germany’s far right. They interviewed party leaders and defectors who have since quit the organisation in disgust…<\/p>\n

Luthardt described how the party was funded by donations from expatriate Nazis and their families who fled to South America after World War II. Cash also came from concerts staged by far-right skinhead<\/strong> rock bands. “The objective is to bring back the Third Reich,” he said. “A new organisation of stormtroopers would take revenge on anyone who disagrees with them. The concept is simply: let’s kick out all the foreigners, then Germans will have jobs again.” (See<\/em> : Neo-Nazism in Germany: Music & Politics<\/a>, March 3, 2009)<\/p>\n

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Politics as usual<\/a>
\nMarius Dragomir
\nEuropean Voice<\/em>
\nMarch 4, 2009<\/p>\n

…The Civic Platform, then in opposition, went on to win the elections in 2007 and in 2008 put together legislation aimed at dismantling TVP and replacing it with a cluster of new companies. The party cited red tape as the main reason for TVP’s lack of efficiency and called for massive sackings. Lay-offs are now happening. TVP’s supervisory board in late December 2008 temporarily suspended the station’s chief executive officer, Andrzej Urba\u0144ski, and his management board, nominally for three months but probably indefinitely. The broadcaster’s acting head, Piotr Farfa\u0142, had by the end of last month fired 54 people, including directors of regional TVP studios. Rather than reducing the headcount, though, he replaced them with 56 people, most of them his cronies. A 31-year-old lawyer, Farfa\u0142 is a former member of an extreme right-wing association and is notorious for articles he wrote in Polish skinhead<\/strong> magazines. He was propelled to TVP’s board by the right-wing League of Polish Families in May 2006. Farfa\u0142 is expected to leave the station once the new media law promoted by the Civic Platform is adopted, which will probably happen by June… (See<\/em> : Race hate and the state<\/a>, December 6, 2006 \/ Granddaughter Of Upside-Down Corpse Heils The Dawn Of A New Europe<\/a>, January 10, 2007)<\/p>\n

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Moscow Skinheads Murder 20 Immigrants<\/a>
\nIntelligence Report<\/em>
\nSpring 2009<\/p>\n

After a closed-door trial, a Moscow court found seven teenaged racist skinheads<\/strong> guilty of murdering 20 immigrants during a yearlong killing spree. The sadistic details that emerged from the five-month trial captivated a city where skinhead<\/strong> violence is rampant. Russian prosecutors said the teenagers, who believed in “the inferiority of non-Slavs,” randomly selected and stabbed to death victims based on their Eurasian or dark-skinned features. Most of the victims were from China or Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic that borders China and Afghanistan. A splinter faction of the gang also murdered Sergei Nikolayev, an internationally known chess master from Russia’s Far East, by beating him with baseball bats on Oct. 20, 2007… (See<\/em> : Anti-Fascist Attitude<\/a>, February 17, 2009)<\/p>\n

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