The People’s Friendship University, also known as Lumumba the institution largely responsible for the greatest influx of Africans into the soviet Union and Russia, has today February 5, 2010 turned FIFTY! BBC Russian service has
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and FOUR pieces on it all in Russian…

But some good general background information is available on Wikipedia.

One of the scars left from a racist knife attack that left the liver punctured. The psychological scars are not so easily photographed.

Not sure exactly who these people are but they seem concerned about the spread of racist ideology in Russia. For those who do not know there certainly is an “Anti-Fa” (anti-fascist) movement that attempts to use neo-Nazi strategy and tactics against various skinhead racist Slavic-pride white-power groups.

January 19 Committee: Neo-Nazi Terrorism in Russia Today

The January 19 Committee calls on everyone who cares to distribute this text as widely as possible:

Nazi terrorism. This is exactly how we should call the problem facing our society today, a problem no less acute than the fundamentalist terrorist underground in the North Caucasus. For many people, ultra-rightist terrorism is a relatively unfamiliar, new and to a great extent incomprehensible phenomenon. That is why bureaucrats, politicians, the media, the siloviki, and the expert community in the majority of instances prefer to ignore the real problem, presenting it instead as a series of isolated, unrelated excesses.

Whole text here.

Little seems to have been said about this in Russian press or anywhere. Thanks to colleagues for the tip off. The following is a translation of the first few paragraphs. The original can be found here in Russian:

New Year – New Terror: Nazis Film Themselves Committing Murder

(FONTANKA.RU) – A provocative film of nationalist character was uploaded to the Internet just before New Year’s by a group called NS-WP. In the video, a guy in a mask greets his “like-minded brothers” and calls them to commit terror. Typical for these types of sites. But with a nuance — in their declaration, the extremists claimed responsibility for the murder of Ghanaian citizen in the Moskovsky district on December 25, 2009 and published a video of the attack. The police say the video truly shows the incident occurring at the end of 2009.

On December 25, 2009 at around 21:30, Solomon Attengo Guadjo, a twenty-five year old Ghanaian citizen, was hospitalized at city hospital no. 26 in extremely critical condition. Medics registered around forty stab wounds to his head, neck, chest, stomach and limbs. He died at 04:40. Police have opened a criminal murder investigation.

The attack could have become one of the biggest crimes of the end of the year. However in the flurry of New Year’s preparations and celebrations, the law-enforcement agencies of St. Petersburg already had a headache over something else: personnel were providing security at mass events, and dealing with the effects of domestic drunkenness. St. Petersburg journalists also paid scant attention to the attack. Therefore, the declaration by the nationalist group NS-WP (National-Socialism White-Power) in the internet in which they claimed responsibility for the murder of the foreigner went practically unnoticed by any competent authorities. It was the video that added credibility to the pathetic declaration.

Further reading in Russian #1
Further reading in Russian #2
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A colleague had this to add: The African Union in St. Petersburg said that the man was not from Ghana, but an illegal immigrant from Nigeria. After the attack, his friends got scared and left the flat (outside of which the attack occurred) immediately. The African Union President said that these guys were also illegal Nigerians and have already been arrested by the Russian police because they don’t have documents to live in Russia. Now they are in a jail. Currently, there are no other sources of information about this killing. The police are trying not to give out information.

Dear Colleagues,

Attached you will find a copy of our 4th quarter 2009 summary report. We would also like to make you aware that in the first two weeks of January, we had the following three incidents reported to us. All three were unprovoked and appear to be motivated only by racism

Click here to download report.

1. An employee of the Ghanaian embassy was beaten on New Year’s Day in an unprovoked attack while waiting at a bus stop.

2. A Ghanaian man who was traveling home after church on Sunday, 10 January received severe stab wounds, including a lacerated liver.

3. A Nigerian man was beaten on 12 January after exiting Tretyakovskaya metro station, sustaining a broken hand and severe cuts and bruises.

Thank you for your continued interest in our work. We continue to hope that creating awareness of this problem will encourage positive changes.

MPC Task Force
mpctaskforce@gmail.com
“Let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and truth.”