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Statement of Moscow bureau for human rights on the Day of victory over Nazism
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 On May 9 Russia marks the 64th anniversary of the victory over fascism – the ideology that made racism and elimination of “non-Aryan” peoples its main principle. Unfortunately one must admit that in the country that suffered enormous victims in the struggle against Nazism, the misanthropic ideology condemned by the whole mankind still finds understanding and support of a part of the society. Even the fact that the Slavs, Russians were “untermensch” subject to inhuman treatment and elimination in the opinion of the “fuhrer” of German Nazis, does not stop the domestic neo-Nazis. One of recent facts of expressing public sympathies towards Nazism was the appearing of a transparency congratulating Hitler on his birthday during recent football match.
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The world didn’t learn the lessons of war
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 Member of the Public chamber of RF, director of Moscow bureau for human rights Alexander Brod and executive director of MBHR Natalya Rykova spoke at the briefing “Results and lessons of the World War II and the present” that took place on May 5 in the UN headquarters in New York.
In their speeches A. Brod and N. Rykova noted that in early 21st century the problems of combat against xenophobia, nationalism, anti-Semitism and racism aggravated in various regions of the world. These problems are urgent both for the countries with steady democratic traditions and institutions and for the countries with totalitarian past. The most misanthropic ideology that brought innumerable sufferings and millions of victims to the world – Nazism - is extracted from the sad luggage of of the 20th century. On the eve of the Victory Day it’s necessary to reflect on the fact what a tragedy the Nazi ideology became for the world, why it is alive up to now and why the attempts to rewrite the history and give equal rights to the victims and the executioners are still fashionable.
It’s most important that the UN General Assembly adopted the resolution late during the recent year on the initiative of Russia condemning the glorification of Nazism and its accomplices including former members of “Waffen SS”, as well as desecration of monuments to the fighters against fascism.
The resolution calls upon the UN member-states to take measures for stopping making heroes of Nazism and its accomplices, destroying and desecrating monuments to the fighters against Nazism; it also notes that pro-Nazi phenomena and extremist movements create a “real threat for democratic values”.
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The public prosecutors discussed the extremism problems
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 Member of the Public chamber of RF, director of Moscow bureau for human rights Alexander Brod took part in scientific-practical conference “Relevant problems of counteraction to extremism. Improvememt of mechanisms for cooperation of anti-extremist activity subjects” that took place on April 29 in Yekaterinburg.
The conference assembled the public prosecutors of Russian regions, representatives of the Ministry of home affairs (MVD) of RF, and leading experts. The governor of Sverdlovsk region E. Rossel participated in the conference.
The conference was opened by the General public prosecutor of RF Yu. Chaika. During the plenary meeting the following spoke: deputy general public prosecutor V. Grin, plenipotentiary of the RF President in Ural federal district N. Vinnichenko, chairman of the committee on civil, criminal, arbitral and remedial legislation of the State Duma P. Krasheninnikov, head of Department of MVD of RF on counteraction to extremism Yu. Kokov etc.
A. Brod: “Alarming figures were made public during the conference: in 2008 460 crimes of extremist orientation were recorded in Russia; rate of growth was 29,2% in comparison with 2007. 379 persons that committed crimes of this category were revealed. At the same time, while in 2007 every fourth crime of extremist orientation remained undetected, in 2008 their weight decreased down to 19,3%, and this may be the evidence of overcoming of negative tendency in detection of crimes of this category observed since 2004. The reporters noted that procedurally competent fixing of proofs and expansion of evidential basis including that through the method of examination of extremist character materials, are necessary for intituting criminal proceedings against the persons guilty of committing extremist orientation crimes.
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