MOSCOW Aug 14, (AFP) – Police in Russia have arrested a suspected serial killer accused of committing 15 murders in Moscow, news agencies reported on August 14. The 21-year-old man is being quizzed in connection with the killings of non-Slavic people over two years. “Police suspect him of having committed 15 murders in Moscow in [...]

MOSCOW May 28 (RIA Novosti) – Extremist groups in Russia including neo-Nazis are actively using the Internet to spread propaganda and recruit new members, contributing to the current rise in racist violence, a state prosecutor said. Vyacheslav Sizov told lawmakers: “Over the past few years, a steady rise in nationalist, racial and religious hate crimes [...]

YEKATERINBURG April 29 (Interfax) – The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has said it is concerned over a surge in the number of extremism-related crimes in the country, primarily in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the Urals region. The number of such crimes soared by 44% to 160 in the first quarter of 2009 year-on-year, Deputy Prosecutor [...]