Winter 2007-2008: An Epidemic of Murders against the Backdrop of Elections

SOVA Center ^ | March 23, 2008 | Galina Kozhevnikova

[hanfei]

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EXCESSIVE AND UNFOUNDED ACTIONS AGAINST EXTREMISM

Abusive anti-extremist enforcement continued to target political opposition at an ever-growing rate. It should also be noted that in contrast to previous years, law enforcement and other authorities did not bother to take cases to court or to punish specific offenders, but instead used the pretext of fighting extremism to prevent certain public events.

In particular, they often confiscate campaign materials, ostensibly to check them for extremism, and then return them after the event, when the owners no longer need the materials. Probably the most cynical incident was the confiscation of a few million election campaign leaflets of SPS political party before the elections, just to return them after the elections on 3 December. This was not the only incident; in mid-February, authorities confiscated 60 thousand copies of CPRF’s bulletin in Smolensk Oblast on the pretext of suspecting "incitement to social animosity.”

Increasingly, courts are finding materials to be extremist without good reasons.

In the winter of 2007–2008, judicial proceedings began in Moscow to find political scientist Andrei Piontkovsky's books to be extremist. Proceedings were also launched to ban books on the history of Nazi Germany, Hitler’s biography by Joachim Fest (one of the best known and widely read Hitler’s bios in the world), and a book by Alexander Yermakov entitled The Nation’s Henchmen. Wehrmacht in the Nazi Germany.

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[hanfei]

Skinheads are bad, thought-crime enforcement is worse.

[the invisib1e hand]

Skinheads are bad, thought-crime enforcement is worse.

It has come to the attention of The Ministry of Social Health that you have been having dangerous thoughts....

[Clintonfatigued]

Paging George Orwell.

[Bokababe]

Yes, this is pretty creepy. If it’s true, it is Orwellian.

[hanfei]

The think-tank itself is quite prestigious. SOVA Center split off from PANORAMA. I expect — without being able to confirm it, of course — that the KGB is simply using Euro-style “anti-racism” regulations to impose mass-migration of Central Asians on Russians.

Brussels does the same thing with blacks, Pakistanis, and North Africans to Europeans, and our government does it with Hispanics to us.

[Bokababe]

"The think-tank itself is quite prestigious. SOVA Center split off from PANORAMA. I expect — without being able to confirm it, of course — that the KGB is simply using Euro-style “anti-racism” regulations to impose mass-migration of Central Asians on Russians. Brussels does the same thing with blacks, Pakistanis, and North Africans to Europeans, and our government does it with Hispanics to us."

I really wonder why all our countries seem to be on the same page with this "open-door immigration project". So far, I have seen no positive results in any of our countries from it, and far too many problems including compromising national security.