Moscow's chief of police Vladimir Pronin, who has a consistent record of playing down neo-Nazi hate crimes in his city, reported that his police force has investigated 52 crimes "committed on the basis of ethnic hatred" so far this year, according to an April 25, 2008 report by the Sova Information-Analytical Center. General Pronin expressed his concern over the rise in the number of hate crimes, but at the same time assured the audience at a public meeting that, "Today I can state with full responsibility that we have blocked a wave of such crimes in the city, this process is halted and will not increase in the future" ("На сегодняшний день могу со всей ответственностью заявить, что волну таких преступлений в городе удалось блокировать, это процесс остановлен, и дальнейшего развития нет."). Strangely, out of these 52 crimes, Moscow prosecutors have only brought hate crimes charges in four of the cases.

[HOME] [ACT] [CONNECT] [JOIN] [ABOUT] [SEARCH]